Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guillemots and seals were to remain with us during the whole of our stay , providing a continuous source of interest . |
| 2 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 3 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 4 | They were to stay with him throughout the desert campaign . |
| 5 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 6 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | This time he was to remain with him to the end . |
| 8 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 9 | His greatest pleasure was to walk with her along the seashore . |
| 10 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 11 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 12 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 13 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 14 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 15 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 16 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 17 | Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House . |
| 18 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 19 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |