Example sentences of "was often to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mayor , he launched a campaign to clean up Athens , and was often to be seen — much to the irritation of the government — riding refuse lorries through the city in the early morning . |
| 2 | This was often to be a disturbing element in many of the subsequent trials when children 's uncorroborated evidence sent many to prison and to the gallows . |
| 3 | He was often to be met in Whitehall committees in 1944 . |
| 4 | For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag . |
| 5 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 6 | As was often to be the case , action by the French in lands adjoining the duchy of Aquitaine provoked the Plantagenet regime to do likewise . |
| 7 | Spurred on by Bernard 's example , Edgar Hughes , Gwenny 's son , was often to be seen with pick or shovel in hand , mixing cement , laying concrete floors , building walls or fitting windows . |
| 8 | Laura was often to be seen with a heavyweight nineteenth-century French novel in her hands , but this pursuit held little appeal for Bernard . |
| 9 | Charles was often to be invoked in the 1860s : Napoleon III 's choice of Compiègne for one of his favourite imperial palaces recalled the French nation 's ninth-century " founder " . |
| 10 | He was often to be found slumped in front of the television , muttering about nig-nogs . |
| 11 | He was often to be referred to as a modern pharaoh by Egyptians when he was in power ; and in particular the High Dam at Aswan was spoken of as Nasser 's pyramid . |