Example sentences of "was [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard the piano strike up : Polly was to go over again a difficult duet with Laurence . |
| 2 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 3 | Er if she was to come over |
| 4 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |
| 5 | When she reappeared on the stage it was to look over a sea of smiling faces and to listen to the chant now of ‘ Macushla ! |
| 6 | They rode slowly to avoid splashing , although the horses ' instinct clearly was to hurry over . |
| 7 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 8 | Among the new Visitors was Mr. Richard Sykes , of Edgeley , beginning a family tradition of service to the School which was to last over a century . |
| 9 | In addition Hungary was to switch over to hard-currency trading with all East European partners by 1991 , and between 1992 and 1994 the forint was to be made partially convertible . |
| 10 | IF an election could be held to decide which animal was to reign over of the Kingdoms of the East there would be three leading candidates . |
| 11 | And of course that was the best way to treat me because we were all there for one reason and that was to get over our addiction and to cure ourselves and be better . |
| 12 | The sensible part , however , knew that seeing him would only be painful and that if she was to get over this miserable crush she ought to do everything possible to stay away from the man . |
| 13 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 14 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 15 | Nixon 's strategy , in other words , was to take over the bureaucracy while , at the same time , he would take on the congress . |
| 16 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 17 | The solution was to take over some of the unconverted part of the attic . |
| 18 | He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him . |
| 19 | And Miles did n't want to stay with Better Books if Collins was to take over . |
| 20 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 21 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 22 | It was to be the successor to the USSR Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering and Industry in matters concerning the Russian Federation , and was to take over its property on Russian territory . |
| 23 | Shaheen was to take over , pending appointment of Sahnoun 's replacement . |
| 24 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 25 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 26 | When it was announced that Central was to take over from ATV , many were concerned that they would lose their favourite programme , the serial ’ Crossroads ’ . |
| 27 | Britain had at all costs to avoid being engulfed in a war of succession between Muslims and Hindus , and the only way to do this was to hand over , while there was still time , not to one but to two successor states . |
| 28 | He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges . |
| 29 | The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past . |
| 30 | Inevitably , because the new organisation was to range over an extremely wide area of activity , the provisions of the Treaty of Rome were necessarily complex , running to 248 articles supplemented by 4 annexes , 13 protocols , 4 conventions and 9 declarations . |