Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 2 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 3 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 4 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 5 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 6 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 7 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 8 | I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’ |
| 9 | Now that it was really beginning , now that I was going to be near him , I felt as strung up and as energized as Zak , and no doubt suffered the same compelling anxiety that things should n't go wrong . |
| 10 | I knew then that I was going to be an artist . |
| 11 | The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’ |
| 12 | I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum . |
| 13 | But shortly after I came out of hospital , I dreamt that I was going to be executed . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 15 | I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess . |
| 16 | And I knew that I was going to be all right . |
| 17 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 18 | When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient : |
| 19 | Even from the distance she could see Doreen clasping his arm while looking up into his face , and it was easy to guess that she was pleading to be moved into a chalet . |
| 20 | Some said that she was going to be the wife of Fahfakhs . |
| 21 | Her teacher would n't worry , since she had alerted her that she was going to be away and promised to bring a note on her return . |
| 22 | She knew then , as he stared at her icily that she was going to be on the receiving end of a straightforward , ‘ Not , ’ at any moment now . |
| 23 | And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time . |
| 24 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 25 | Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems . |
| 26 | Marshall 's instant thought was that she was waiting to be picked up . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 28 | When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ? |
| 29 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 30 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |