Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 2 | I did n't think I was going to be found guilty other than by accident . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you think I was going to be left behind ? ’ responded de Villiers cheerfully , his bright , interested gaze going from one to the other . |
| 4 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 5 | " Did you know I was going to be here ? " he asked . |
| 6 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 7 | ‘ We invited him to appear and talk us through some film of him as a boy , and he did n't know she was going to be there . |
| 8 | Yes I did know she was going to be in Caracas and No I did n't tell you and Yes that was wrong but would it have been better if I 'd told you ? |
| 9 | Matter of fact , I 'd forgotten she was going to be in the bloody country until she turned up . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't know it was meant to be fancy dress though . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , erm , if you did n't know it was meant to be serious , you might think it was a great send off of psychoanalysis , you know . |
| 12 | Dad did say yesterday he had a surprise , but I did n't know it was going to be this — it 's great . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did you know he was going to be here ? ’ |
| 14 | So maybe he did n't know he was going to be photographed . |
| 15 | On opening it was seen to be empty . |
| 16 | In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty ! |
| 17 | How was I to know he was going to be murdered ? ’ |
| 18 | And the police say he was believed to be an associate of Keith Hanger . |
| 19 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't mind confessing I was hoping to be her farm manager , ’ said Gabriel in his honest way . |
| 21 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 22 | Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides . |
| 23 | The gloomy Scotsman , of Menlove Avenue , Calderstones , Liverpool , says he was doomed to be depressed from the day he was born … 67 years ago . |
| 24 | Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us . |
| 25 | If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed . |
| 26 | I think that announcement was actually made I told it was going to be and has committed to support D R D A two and that effectively provides an alternative A P I perhaps as O D B C with Microsoft 's backing will become the norm in the P C environment , D R D A will be in the I B M environment . |
| 27 | Father had said it was going to be a wonderful surprise . |
| 28 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 29 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't realize it was going to be a tented wank , ’ said Drew , as Sukey applied a dash of pink lipstick . |