Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 2 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'd be a very odd individual who , when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father , failed to follow up on it , ’ Vitor growled , starting to walk again . |
| 4 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 5 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 6 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 7 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 8 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 9 | In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted . |
| 10 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
| 11 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 12 | DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party . |
| 13 | And when Sean Connery discovered he was to be filmed with 8ft sharks for Thunderball his reaction was : ‘ You must be joking — not bloody likely . ’ |
| 14 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 15 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 16 | That meant she was to be left with Barbara Coleman and Barbara Coleman was tiresome company . |
| 17 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 18 | Cobalt said : ‘ He did n't mind her staying longer because it meant he was to be paid more . |
| 19 | Residents were worried that adaptations to the building at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road meant it was to be used as a morgue . |
| 20 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 21 | Crowds of chanting protestors gathered in the town centre as the 65-year-old Edinburgh man addressed a bunch of supporters at the King 's Head Hotel which did not realise it was to be the BNP 's venue . |
| 22 | Though approaching early middle age , on the outbreak of the last world war he at once abandoned his pursuits for active service and very hard service it was to be . |
| 23 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 24 | But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away . |
| 25 | With economic vision so blinkered it was to be expected that the economy would be allowed to drift with the market situation and without significant and positive government direction . |
| 26 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 27 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 28 | ‘ Seumas Ban said she was to be fed . ’ |
| 29 | You said they were to be brought as soon as they were drawn up . ’ |
| 30 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |