Example sentences of "[vb past] i was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 2 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 3 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 4 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 5 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 6 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 7 | I knew I was going to be deceived . |
| 8 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 9 | ‘ It was pretty obvious that you were n't too happy when you knew I was going to be working here . |
| 10 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 11 | So , I thought I was going to be a freelancer — what a fool . |
| 12 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 13 | I thought I was going to be sucked out . |
| 14 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 15 | I thought I was going to be buried . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was not as surprised as I thought I was going to be ’ , he said eventually , ‘ to hear myself pronounced clinically dead ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You thought I was going to be a lot more fun , did n't you ? ’ she asked gently . |
| 18 | Oh God , I almost crapped myself I thought I was going to be working till twelve I 've now got no prep to do . |
| 19 | ‘ The gaffer said I was going to be an economist , and that was that . ’ |