Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] due [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was due to leave at five-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 2 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 3 | And by that time I was due to return to my work in Turkey . |
| 4 | We were at The Belfry the week before and I was due to fly from there up to St Andrews directly after the event . |
| 5 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 6 | She was due to return for the new term when she died . |
| 7 | She was due to play for the men yesterday in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford . |
| 8 | Nervous because she was due to play in two chukkas ' time , Perdita refused even to acknowledge Daisy 's presence . |
| 9 | Only a few short weeks before she was due to come to Edinburgh and receive the medal , she was forced to go into hiding in her own country . |
| 10 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember once he called the squad together ‘ for ten minutes ’ just before we were due to go to dinner . |
| 12 | We were due to open on Thursday . |
| 13 | Now , we were due to finish at four o'clock but I 'm not suggesting we can get through all the business if we carry on . |
| 14 | At breakfast on the day before they were due to arrive in New York Mrs Carson said , ‘ I think you could go below and see your cousins today . |
| 15 | They were due to return by Easter 1101 , but they were conveniently delayed , and it was not until September that the result of their mission became known . |
| 16 | They were due to go to Druid 's Bottom two days before Christmas , but Auntie Lou was ill . |
| 17 | On March 15 a 23-member grand jury indicted four officers involved in the beating ; they were due to come for trial on May 13 . |
| 18 | When they were due to fly to Kiev together he snubbed Macmillan by staying at home ‘ to have a tooth filled ’ . |
| 19 | They were due to fly to Greece for a game against a team with an unpronouncable name . |
| 20 | It was due to open in less than a week . |
| 21 | The purchase of Glass Glover comes just weeks before it was due to float on the stock market . |
| 22 | ‘ Things were being let slide because it was due to close in five weeks time . ’ |
| 23 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 24 | On November 5 , 1969 the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) sought the RAF Museum 's approval to keep PA474 flying right up to the date that it was due to go into Hendon , which the Museum agreed to . |
| 25 | It was due to start at four o'clock , but did n't begin until twenty past due to a hitch . |
| 26 | It was due to begin at eleven am , Bill Pertwee told me . |
| 27 | It was due to run in a couple of days , was n't it ? ’ |
| 28 | It was due to resume after the CPSU congress to adopt a party programme and to finalize the composition of its leading bodies . |
| 29 | The government then told the Coal Board to hold back nearly five hundred million that it was due to pay into the Coal Industry pension scheme . |
| 30 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |