Example sentences of "you were [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you were born to be queen of the pride . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What I want to see is the woman you should be — the one you were born to be . |
| 3 | It was a closed community with the habit of passing down ultimatums — for example , you were created to be a wife and mother . |
| 4 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 5 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 6 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 7 | I thought you were meant to be watching your blood pressure . ’ |
| 8 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 9 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 10 | You were allowed to be defended by a fellow officer who acted as ‘ your friend ’ . |
| 11 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |