Example sentences of "[conj] i was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 2 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 3 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 4 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 5 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 6 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 7 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |
| 8 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 9 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 10 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 11 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 12 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 13 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 14 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 15 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 16 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 17 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 18 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 19 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 20 | Just on a year ago , as I was to be in London at the time of the World Cup , I made enquiries about obtaining tickets to attend some of the Cup matches in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 22 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |