Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 2 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 3 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 4 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 5 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 6 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 7 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 8 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 9 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 10 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 11 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 12 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 13 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 14 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |