Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 2 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 5 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 6 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 7 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 8 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 9 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 10 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 11 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fortunately , my persistent ‘ need to know ’ was to get me there in the end . |
| 19 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 20 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 21 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |