Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 2 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 3 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 4 | I was to starve for thirty-six hours beforehand , take a powerful laxative and drink plenty of clear fluids ‘ including alcohol if you wish ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was to blame for ordering you not to harm him . |
| 6 | I was to blame for everything . |
| 7 | And of course I was to blame for not keeping on his and making him do something about it . |
| 8 | I was to work for smelly Perkins for a whole week . |
| 9 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 10 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 11 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 12 | Surviving vicious family feuds and a number of humiliations at the hands of the English , Malcolm III established a line which was to last for over two centuries . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 14 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 15 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 16 | Thus , he set up his own windsurfing and surfing business at Whitesands which was to run for 2 years . |
| 17 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 18 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
| 19 | It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details . |
| 20 | He glared at her again , as if she were to blame for everything , and Robyn felt herself tremble beneath his icy gaze . |
| 21 | But if she were to look for ever and a day , she would not find it . |
| 22 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 23 | It was not poor people who were to blame for the dampness but poor housing that was making the people poor . |
| 24 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 25 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 26 | Mr Newham said the PPL would have ‘ no qualms ’ about seeking redress from those who consistently ignored them , but added : ‘ If you were to apply for a licence today we could be lenient about past fees . ’ |
| 27 | Well , she was to dance for another twenty years . |
| 28 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |
| 29 | She did not know herself what lay behind the cryptic words , and , whatever it was , he would decide she was to blame for anything that befell . |
| 30 | She was to apply for a job in a certain firm , with national importance . |