Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] him [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 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 3 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 4 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 8 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |