Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was just to be shut in the cellar , as usual , the light turned off , as usual , the better to think out my wickedness , the better to pray for forgiveness . |
| 2 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 3 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 4 | Through the BBC giving opportunities to women I was there to be chosen . ’ |
| 5 | But I told myself that if I was ever to be truly frightened , I should have known it before then . |
| 6 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 7 | Marie Grubbe was incapable of not loving Søren ; she was neither to be congratulated upon the fact , nor was she to be criticised for it . |
| 8 | Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man . |
| 9 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 10 | She was now to be seen in a small cubby-hole next to Mr Malik 's office , typing furiously , or on the phone to an organization called the Islamic World Unity Fund , which was said to be about to offer Mr Malik and Mr Shah a large sum in US dollars . |
| 11 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 12 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 13 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 14 | It was evidently to be a very reserved one . |
| 15 | It was also to be Andrew Knight 's last executive action : he is becoming a non-executive deputy chairman as Conrad Black , holding 80 per cent of the shares , assumes daily control . |
| 16 | It was also to be the largest aircraft ever built in Britain . |
| 17 | It was also to be a station for the motor-car age , situated on ample land with large car-parks . |
| 18 | This appointment was unique , and was the only instance of its kind — it was also to be the last for over a century , because Edward A. Kirk was deaf . |
| 19 | It was also to be used to feed the market-research obsession . |
| 20 | The EDC was to be a military organisation , but for many it was also to be a further step along the road to European integration . |
| 21 | It was also to be hoped , her father told her nanny prior to their departure , that by the time his daughter was returned to Brougham , the memory of her mother would already be fading . |
| 22 | It was also to be assumed the four Orientals themselves would have to be faced , as they had no way of knowing that two of them were already dead , thanks to the actions of Sherman and the Prophet himself . |
| 23 | It was also to be a welcoming home for John and Angela , who had come down to watch the final round and were staying at the Bell Hotel . |
| 24 | It was later to be alleged that he deliberately falsified his nationality , claiming to be English when he was not . |
| 25 | It was later to be challenged in urban Spain — not merely that of the great city but also the sizeable southern agrarian pueblo — because his parishioners were confronted with rival ideologies and because the priests tended to side with the notables . |
| 26 | We do n't know for certain but it was probably to be given to you on your arrival . ’ |
| 27 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 28 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 29 | It was then to be infilled with debris and sealed with puddled clay to prevent water falling into workings below . |
| 30 | The Headmaster 's House had stood in the middle of fields , but it was now to be surrounded by educational plant . |