Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 3 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 4 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 10 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 11 | That meant she was to be left with Barbara Coleman and Barbara Coleman was tiresome company . |
| 12 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 13 | Cobalt said : ‘ He did n't mind her staying longer because it meant he was to be paid more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 18 | ‘ Seumas Ban said she was to be fed . ’ |
| 19 | You said they were to be brought as soon as they were drawn up . ’ |