Example sentences of "[was/were] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia , who last night joined Prince Andrew for an outdoor operatic New World concert in the city , were to have boarded some of the 100 vessels . |
| 2 | If we were to have to suffer all the rigours of the directive to which my hon. Friend refers , it would cost employers substantial sums — billions of pounds — in the next year . |
| 3 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 4 | What a madman Frankenstein was to have created such a thing , and to hope to keep its existence a secret ! |
| 5 | If I was to have done that in this house , I 'd have packed my bags long ago ! ’ |
| 6 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |
| 7 | David Sole , Scotland 's captain , has also had to dig out the speech-making file following the midweek injury in Sydney to Nick Farr-Jones , Australia 's World Cup leader , who was to have headed this campaign which coaches Ian McGeechan and Bob Templeton hope will compound New Zealand 's problems . |
| 8 | The rally , which was to have featured all the razzmatazz of an American political campaign , with drum majorettes , a motor cavalcade , bands and balloons , was to have marked the beginning of the ruling National Party 's drive to recruit coloured , black and Indian members . |
| 9 | Everyone said how lucky she was to have snared such a prize as the marquis , but she would have given anything to have changed places with Mary Waters , her maid , who was fat , plain and single . |
| 10 | How fortunate Paul was to have married such a woman ! |
| 11 | The achievement was to have finished another book rather than to have engaged with characters and plot . ) |