Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 2 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 3 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 4 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 5 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 6 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 7 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 8 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 9 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |