Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Paul or Erlend or I were to die at Siward 's hand , you would feet as he does . |
| 2 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 3 | I was to serve at St Michael 's church , Kemmendine , a suburb of Rangoon , where there was a parish church , a teachers ' training school and a blind school . |
| 4 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 5 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 6 | They 're to appear at Oxford 's Appolo theatre with fifties pop idol Russ Conway . |
| 7 | The chairman of British Coal was asked whether every colliery would remain open if it were to produce at 130p per gigajoule . |
| 8 | To Bradford from Helen Craig : ‘ How pleasant and easy it is to shop at Sainsbury 's in comparison to other supermarkets … please do n't change anything , just keep it simple and pleasant as it is . ’ |
| 9 | The way to locate it is to begin at Beta and then sweep past a line of three faint stars until you come to the cluster , which , incidentally , forms a right angle with Alpha and Beta . |
| 10 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 11 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 12 | This accident … it was to get at Jack , right ? |
| 13 | It was Sunday and Mark was working on the address he was to give at Trinity College , Dublin . |