Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] he in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim .
2 Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come .
3 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
4 The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching .
5 In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics .
6 Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held .
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