Example sentences of "[pron] was to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 32 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 33 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 36 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 37 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 38 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 39 | I told him how happy I was to be back in his country . |
| 40 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 41 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |
| 42 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 43 | I was to be interviewed in New York , en route to Rio , by an agent who specialised in placing people like me . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I was to be seated next to Prince Edward at dinner . |
| 47 | I was to be its diarist . |
| 48 | 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 ’ . |
| 49 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 50 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 51 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 52 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 53 | ‘ I could almost weep when I think how pleased I was to be returning to England . |
| 54 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 55 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 56 | Someone had gone to Germany , someone had returned from London , someone was in hospital , someone was to be married . |
| 57 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 58 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 59 | 13 Platoon had subsequently been tasked with providing the security for the funeral , which was to be held in a small village near Strabane . |
| 60 | They first set eyes on the house which was to be ‘ home ’ for the rest of Jack 's life on 7 July 1930 . |