Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the two hundred million that I was referring to er , earlier , was n't in place at the time that we made our write there . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 3 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 4 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 5 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 6 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 7 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 8 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 9 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 10 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 11 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 14 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 15 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 16 | Detective-Sergeant Prentice had specifically requested my presence and left instructions that I was to go to Queen 's Road and not Whipps Cross Hospital Mortuary . |
| 17 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 18 | ‘ That I was posted to your staff because you asked for me . |
| 19 | I I would not go out there on to their property without letting them have knowledge that I was coming to their property . |
| 20 | I am grateful to the hon. Lady because she makes the point that I was coming to . |
| 21 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 22 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 23 | I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’ |
| 24 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 25 | Now that it was really beginning , now that I was going to be near him , I felt as strung up and as energized as Zak , and no doubt suffered the same compelling anxiety that things should n't go wrong . |
| 26 | I knew then that I was going to be an artist . |
| 27 | The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’ |
| 28 | I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum . |
| 29 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 30 | So the next message that I was going to or the next thing I was concerned about really , was on page |