Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 2 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 3 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 4 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 5 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 6 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 7 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 8 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 9 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 11 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 12 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 13 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 14 | Fortunately , my persistent ‘ need to know ’ was to get me there in the end . |
| 15 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 16 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 17 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |