Example sentences of "knew [pers pn] [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 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 7 | ‘ Now you know I would n't leave you unless I knew you were going to be all right . |
| 8 | ‘ You knew we were going to be here at the same time ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He knew we were going to be following him . ’ |
| 10 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Farrell knew he was going to be sick . |
| 14 | Derek felt taken aback , as he knew he was meant to be , by this sudden revelation . |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 16 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 17 | 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 … , . |
| 18 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 19 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know . |
| 22 | ‘ You knew it was going to be like this , Frank , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ You knew it was going to be me , ’ he said . |
| 24 | AS SOON AS YOU AWOKE you knew it was going to be hot . |
| 25 | Luke grinned , and suddenly she knew it was going to be all right . |
| 26 | Somehow she had to learn to live with the pain of the deception and get on with her life , but she knew it was going to be the hardest thing she had ever had to do . |
| 27 | I knew it was going to be the red Sierra . ’ |