Example sentences of "[was/were] to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle . |
| 2 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 3 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 4 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 5 | If he came sniffing round , Davide was to take him off somewhere . |
| 6 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |