Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
3 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
4 | But I mean , then I was bound to be very bored , except |
5 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
6 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
7 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |
8 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
9 | ‘ I was flattered to be asked to join them , any fan would be , and I know a few of my mates are jealous . |
10 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
11 | Pamela Grant wrote : ’ Some tutorials I was sent to were way above my head — I did n't dislike them , but they worried me . ’ |
12 | ‘ I was born to be a Headmaster so that 's what I was called . |
13 | It 's what I was born to be . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
16 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
17 | ‘ I was hoping to be allowed to land it , ’ said the Thing . |
18 | ‘ I do n't mind confessing I was hoping to be her farm manager , ’ said Gabriel in his honest way . |
19 | ‘ I was hoping to be able to use my office , ’ Miles said slowly . |
20 | But Victoria is wondering why I always come with you , when I was employed to be on duty here . ’ |
21 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
22 | 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 … |
23 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
24 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
25 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |
26 | ‘ I was trying to be polite . |
27 | I was trying to be cool , but the statues were not funny to me . |
28 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
29 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
30 | Okay , I admit I was honoured to be asked , and so I started thinking about what I was going to cover . |