Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 2 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 3 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 4 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 5 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |