Example sentences of "knew [pron] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 3 | I knew I was going to be deceived . |
| 4 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 5 | ‘ It was pretty obvious that you were n't too happy when you knew I was going to be working here . |
| 6 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 7 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 8 | ‘ Now you know I would n't leave you unless I knew you were going to be all right . |
| 9 | This time I knew everything was going to be alright . |
| 10 | ‘ You knew we were going to be here at the same time ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He knew we were going to be following him . ’ |
| 12 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 13 | When he arrived on the set all hunched up with his head down to his waist , she knew there were going to be problems on the way . |
| 14 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 15 | Somehow we got ashore and into the stockade , but we knew there was going to be a fight . ’ |
| 16 | If a Burton man turned his empty beer-pot upside down on the table they knew there was going to be trouble . |
| 17 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew there was going to be lot of stigma , because it was heroin , ’ she says . |
| 19 | He was only a couple of years older than Jack but he was huge — almost as wide as he was tall — and although Jack had never had much to do with him he knew he was reputed to be a bully . |
| 20 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 21 | Farrell knew he was going to be sick . |
| 22 | Derek felt taken aback , as he knew he was meant to be , by this sudden revelation . |
| 23 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 24 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 25 | With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , . |
| 26 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 27 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 28 | I was No 1 in my sophomore year , and I knew it was going to be even tougher to be a top ranking player on the Pro-Tour . ’ |
| 29 | You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know . |
| 30 | ‘ You knew it was going to be like this , Frank , ’ he said . |