Example sentences of "[pron] was [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 2 | I was to speak to the Consul General . ’ |
| 3 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 4 | So Lilian was informed that she was to come to the dentist for an examination . |
| 5 | Radzinowicz and Wootton were joined by Mrs Serota , who was to succeed to the chairmanship after the death of the first chairman , a former Labour Minister with a keen interest in penal policy , Kenneth Younger . |
| 6 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 7 | His first choice was to remain leader on his own terms , his second to go , and his third , last , and unacceptable one was to cling to the position on the terms of others . |
| 8 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 9 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 10 | I later learned that , when they went off together in that fashion , it was to go to the pictures . |
| 11 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 12 | John Major flashed his Brixton smile , John Gummer put away his Jackie Collins novel and Norman Fowler , whose task it was to reply to the debate , fixed his face into an expression of thoughtful concern . |
| 13 | He was to go to a hotel where arrangements would be made for him to meet Meehan . |
| 14 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 15 | Finally , at around 3am one Sunday in 1967 pump man , Willie Baxter , was detailed to go through the tunnels from St Enochs to Bridge Street Station where he was to attend to a tank located beneath the stairs . |
| 16 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 17 | He was to travel to the end upon the path marked out for him by National Socialism and the saviour of Germany . |
| 18 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 19 | From a monthly turnover of 400 roubles at the end of December 1922 , one of them was to rise to a turnover of 2,000 by March 1923 . |