Example sentences of "[pers pn] was bind to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 2 | But I mean , then I was bound to be very bored , except |
| 3 | I mean , he is n't run of the mill , is he ? … and I thought any lady friend of his was bound to be unusual . ’ |
| 4 | She was bound to be sick before the last race , either then or on the road to the meeting , or on the road home . |
| 5 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 6 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 7 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 8 | When taken with the latitude allowed by the instruction to ‘ operate in the public interest ’ , it is easy to see that , with such imprecise targets , it was bound to be extremely difficult to assess the performance of nationalised industries . |
| 9 | However , although the dramatic progress , in terms of productivity , made by Jaguar since privatisation is acknowledged , critics claim that it was bound to be a takeover candidate before too long , as it was a small player in a market which was becoming increasingly concentrated . |
| 10 | Until now my only objection to living in a water-mill had been a conviction that it was bound to be dark , water-mills having a habit of being in valleys , Nigel explained , but it was wonderfully light up there , with two large , deep-set windows . |
| 11 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 12 | It was bound to be one of the young reporters . |
| 13 | In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty ! |
| 14 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 15 | It was bound to be |
| 16 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 17 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought the idea was to let the funeral go ahead , or at least make it look like it was ; he was bound to be here . |
| 19 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 20 | He was bound to be , was n't he ? |
| 21 | ‘ He was bound to be punished . ’ |
| 22 | It stood to reason that it must be someone 's job ; anything that Mellowes gave me was bound to be . |
| 23 | Somebody in the blackness around them was bound to be listening . |
| 24 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |