Example sentences of "know [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Did you know I was going to be here ? " he asked . |
| 2 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | We put enough rehearsal in to know we were going to be okay ; it was n't people just going up there and jamming . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't know it was meant to be fancy dress though . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dad did say yesterday he had a surprise , but I did n't know it was going to be this — it 's great . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Did you know he was going to be here ? ’ |
| 10 | So maybe he did n't know he was going to be photographed . |
| 11 | How was I to know he was going to be murdered ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd known you were going to be so quick I 'd have given you a lift . ’ |
| 13 | Something like Crazy , Crazy Nights , though , is such a catchy song you must have known it was going to be huge … |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd known it was going to be like this I 'd have gone ages ago ! ’ |
| 15 | He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 18 | I knew I was going to be deceived . |
| 19 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 20 | ‘ It was pretty obvious that you were n't too happy when you knew I was going to be working here . |
| 21 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 22 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 23 | ‘ Now you know I would n't leave you unless I knew you were going to be all right . |
| 24 | ‘ You knew we were going to be here at the same time ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He knew we were going to be following him . ’ |
| 26 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 27 | The fact that Chant , knowing he was going to be murdered ( that much was cogent ) , should have chosen to set these nonsenses down as vital information was proof of significant derangement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Farrell knew he was going to be sick . |