Example sentences of "i was [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Still virginal in my dealings with the music press , I was to be despatched to the Reading Festival to cover this bastion of the British rock calendar for NME . |
| 3 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 4 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 5 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 6 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 9 | I was to be seated next to Prince Edward at dinner . |
| 10 | I was to be confirmed . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 12 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 13 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 14 | ‘ I could almost weep when I think how pleased I was to be returning to England . |
| 15 | I was to be incarcerated for another two days and nights on a diet of three assorted pills and a curious fizzy powder in a paper wrapper , presented every few hours with instructions in mime . |
| 16 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 17 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 18 | I was to be interviewed in New York , en route to Rio , by an agent who specialised in placing people like me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ And if , by some magic wand , I was to be offered an overnight cure for just one of them , I am not sure which I would choose . ’ |
| 27 | But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt . |