Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 2 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 3 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 11 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 22 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 23 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 24 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 25 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 26 | In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics . |
| 27 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 28 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 29 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 30 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |