Example sentences of "i [was/were] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’ |
| 2 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 3 | ‘ I was to be the poet , he the novelist . |
| 4 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 5 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 6 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 7 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |