Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 2 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 3 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 4 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 5 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 6 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 7 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 8 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 9 | It was an example that , in rather different circumstances , was later to commend itself to the Capetians . |
| 10 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 11 | On Day One , the simple exercise of shooting a few scenes in the garden was partly to familiarise you with the idea of editing in camera . |
| 12 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
| 14 | I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob . |
| 15 | Once more , the manservant was there to show me into the drawing-room . |
| 16 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |