Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 2 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 3 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
| 4 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 5 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 6 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 7 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 8 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 9 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 10 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 11 | ‘ The kind of third degree I was subjected to was not justified . |
| 12 | ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition . |
| 13 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 14 | Some years previously , however , a long tunnel , North Cross-cut , was taken off ( along a fault ) from a point further along the Deep Level ( see Fig. 19a ) to try the Dry Gill Vein — at the intersection it was found to be a barren quartz string . |
| 15 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 16 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 17 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 18 | While for elementary pupils the object was to instil a feeling for the grandeur of the national language and literature , within the higher sector it was felt to be necessary to fire the pupils ' and students ' imaginations : to provide indirect moral inculcation through pleasurable and even joyous responses to literary values . |
| 19 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 20 | Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 22 | At assessment she was found to be severely depressed with a score of thirty-two on the Beck Depression Inventory ( Beck et al . , |
| 23 | ‘ Did you tell Connie you were going to be a kennel-maid ? ’ she asked . |
| 24 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 25 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 26 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 27 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 28 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 29 | The room they were taken to was bare , panelled and had a stone floor , but had been hastily equipped with stools and benches and tables for the Patriarch 's visit . |
| 30 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |