Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The northerners thought the others posh and ‘ mardy ’ ( affected ) , while in return they were found to be coarse and vulgar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 14 | At assessment she was found to be severely depressed with a score of thirty-two on the Beck Depression Inventory ( Beck et al . , |
| 15 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 16 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 18 | Martha , however , was ready to question her grandmother 's notions of colour since , whatever colour she was considered to be , it only seemed to bring her trouble . |
| 19 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 20 | Cawla was a hairdresser she was going to be getting her own chair . |
| 21 | I do n't know what he thought about , but what I thought about was how in God 's name we were going to be able to face each other in the morning . |
| 22 | When we looked at the cu cumulative percentage mortality and major morbidity it was found to be significantly less in those sites performing more than one hundred operations , compared to those sites performing less than one hundred operations , during the audit period . |
| 23 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 24 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 25 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 26 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 27 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 28 | Last night he was waiting to be quizzed by police . |
| 29 | From quite an early age I was expected to be somewhere around . |
| 30 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |