Example sentences of "i [was/were] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 2 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 5 | How glad I was to be homeless . |