Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 2 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 3 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 4 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 5 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 6 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 7 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 8 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 9 | Still … those recent moments along the track had been wonderful — while they 'd lasted — and she was learning to be thankful for small moments of joy . |
| 10 | This was her wedding night and she was going to be sleeping alone . |
| 11 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 12 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 13 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 14 | We were clear , and we were going to be rich . |
| 15 | ‘ Fabien loved her , and they were going to be married within weeks anyway . |
| 16 | and they were going to be here . |
| 17 | In contrast , trade unions in France had too little organisational strength in the workplace to be able to inflict major economic losses on the firm and they were considered to be too ideologically radical to be permitted a higher degree of participation . |
| 18 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 19 | Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together . |
| 20 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 21 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 22 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 23 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 24 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 25 | and he was getting to be an old man and he had actually stopped and then father would take er would be asked to do the undertaking in that part . |
| 26 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 27 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 28 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 29 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 30 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |