Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 2 | I immediately took this to be a delusion — a sign that I was shortly to withdraw forever into a blissful lunatic world of favourite food fantasies . |
| 3 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 4 | I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves . |
| 5 | I was soon to find out . |
| 6 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 7 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 8 | I WAS NEVER TO KNOW HOW HELMUT REACTED TO FINDING the house empty on his return from Zurich . |
| 9 | He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground . |
| 10 | I had read enough to know that the way the Bristol Cancer Help Centre promulgated was a considerable challenge , although how hard a challenge I was only to appreciate later . |
| 11 | She was soon to give up her own acting career — which she never took seriously — to — spoil him ? |
| 12 | Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from . |
| 13 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 14 | In the Persian Wars , however , the Boiotian League had evidently not ordered a general policy , because Plataia and Thespiai fought for the Greeks whereas Thebes medised , a stain she was never to wipe out . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought we were here to learn not to criticize , ’ she said sternly . |
| 16 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 17 | They were soon to become very much worse . |
| 18 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 19 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 20 | There was an orchestra playing during the meal and any fears that they were there to drown out any potential marital disputes were soon dispelled . |
| 21 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 22 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 23 | If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so . |
| 24 | It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide . |
| 25 | When she came home , it was usually to go out again : the boys had appointments with the dentist , the orthodontist , games with Little League , Scout meetings , Clark had violin lessons , Normie , trumpet lessons . |
| 26 | Erm well it was , it was really to go through erm just to , to give you a face so that you 've got someone to contact |
| 27 | And at some point it would all become as real as it was ever to become again , as the happy escaper slid into dreams until morning . |
| 28 | One said : ‘ It might not be a bad idea if it was all to come out . |
| 29 | She hoped then that perhaps it was all to end here — that the act would be something separate . |
| 30 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |