Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] with [pron] [prep] the " 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 | They were to stay with him throughout the desert campaign . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This time he was to remain with him to the end . |
| 6 | His greatest pleasure was to walk with her along the seashore . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |