Example sentences of "[vb past] i be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 2 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 3 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 4 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 5 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I completely forgot I was attached to the table — all the lunch things fell off , the wine spilt and the glasses shattered . |
| 7 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 8 | That meant I was transferred to the grammar school at Bideford , where I stayed until I took my " O " levels in the first year the system was inaugurated . |
| 9 | Suddenly I felt I was talking to my mum . |
| 10 | Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | But he knew I was coming to Slane , and , I suppose , because he knew you , knew you came from Slane , he thought it would be amusing to force us to meet … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 14 | I knew I was going to be deceived . |
| 15 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 16 | But I knew I was going to East Kilbride I thought , This is stupid , it 's only gon na make it worse . |
| 17 | ‘ It was pretty obvious that you were n't too happy when you knew I was going to be working here . |
| 18 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
| 19 | The boss knew I was worked to death , and not wanting to lose me said , ‘ Mick , you take a few days rest . |
| 20 | I thought I was getting to him . |
| 21 | Then thought I was trying to . |
| 22 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 23 | Those G Ps told me , I thought I was listening to my own speeches to be honest , from about a year or two ago . |
| 24 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 25 | So , I thought I was going to be a freelancer — what a fool . |
| 26 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 27 | I thought I was going to be sucked out . |
| 28 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 29 | Sometimes I thought I was going to ; sometimes I was even more scared at the thought that I would n't . |
| 30 | I thought I was going to be buried . ’ |