Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 2 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 3 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 4 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 5 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |
| 6 | If Englishmen in America were to push on to the west , it was fairly predictable that there would be clashes with the thinly scattered Indian population , and it was quite certain that if they went far enough either west or north they would meet the French . |
| 7 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 8 | The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called . |
| 9 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 10 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 11 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 12 | During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store . |
| 13 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 14 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 15 | For a detailed criticism of this rule and the problems which it causes , when there is material conflict in the averments made by an appellant and the licensing board , see Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , cit. , where it was held that in the case of a conflict of averments , the court could not go behind what appeared in the board 's pleadings. ( 6 ) In Jack v. Edinburgh Corporation , 1973 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 64 , it was held that where an appeal was considered in circumstances substantially different from those considered by the licensing authority , the proper course was to remit back to the authority for reconsideration . |
| 16 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 17 | One of the most dangerous stunts Crawford did in the new series was to hang on to the back of a car as it dangled over sea and rocks two hundred feet below . |
| 18 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 19 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |
| 20 | Her great ability was to get through to the outcasts of society — the drunks , the crazed , the depressed . |
| 21 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 22 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |