Example sentences of "[pers pn] was to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 2 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 3 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 4 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 5 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
| 6 | She was to be wrong-footed , she saw : made to feel ponderous , portentous . |
| 7 | For a while , she was to be disappointed . |
| 8 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 9 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 10 | She was to be fisted . |
| 11 | The worst thing for her was to be alone . |
| 12 | How gorgeous it was to be alive ! |
| 13 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 14 | She was surprised to find how easy it was to be passive . |
| 15 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 16 | Well it was to be helpful to the er to Mr and Scotton Parish Council that what what I was saying was , we were n't relying on the key diagram to justify at some future date , it being an outer northern relief road , that decision would have to be defended at future enquiry . |
| 17 | Ironically , it was to be Iranian offensives in the south that triggered the developments which brought the inland war close to an end , with Iraq holding the advantage . |
| 18 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 19 | It was to be autonomous , and to direct its own programme of work . |
| 20 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 21 | It was to be five emperors , ten governors , and about 40 years on before the hill-top occupants of Eildon Hill North were rudely dislodged by the Romans and Newstead fort established . |
| 22 | It was to be many years before South Africa could support full-time professional dance companies . |
| 23 | We had another seven years of rationing to come , though we did n't know it , and it was to be many years before things returned to normal , but the war was over . |
| 24 | It was to be many months before the new tsar accepted defeat in the Crimean War . |
| 25 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 26 | that I have downstairs , because it 's , if it was to be computerized , it would be a massive great bloody great volume |
| 27 | It was to be topical and polemical , and among other things a direct challenge to Fathers and Children . |
| 28 | It was to be 1925 before the downward pressure in wages was to again produce the threat of major industrial conflict in the coalfields . |
| 29 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 30 | Clearly , if it was to be successful in redistributing work , those who controlled the market should be excluded completely or relatively . |