Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 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 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 4 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 5 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 6 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 7 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 8 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 9 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 10 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 11 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 12 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 13 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 14 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 16 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 17 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 18 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 19 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 20 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 21 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 22 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 23 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 24 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 25 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 26 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 27 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 28 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 29 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 30 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |