Example sentences of "just [subord] [pers pn] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 2 | It seemed as if her silence at last unnerved her father because he turned to speak to her just before they were to walk together down the long aisle . |
| 3 | They could , theoretically , have radiated worldwide , just as they were to do 130 million years later , when the rhynchosaurs and synapsids disappeared . |
| 4 | In other words , if Dr Akhtar has his way , it would become unlawful to vilify a person 's religion , just as it is to humiliate him because of the colour of his skin . |
| 5 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 6 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 7 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |