Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 2 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 3 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 4 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 5 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 6 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 7 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |
| 8 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |
| 9 | " Drewy " Leask , one of our local customs staff , same with us as local pilot , and very glad I was to have him on board as he was able to show us many remote anchorages and isolated harbours that I would never otherwise have dared approach . |
| 10 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 11 | all that cork tip was for was to stop it on your lips |
| 12 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 13 | Being English , she thought that a sure way of bestowing pleasure on strangers was to compliment them on their dogs . |