Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves . |
| 4 | I was soon to find out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I WAS NEVER TO KNOW HOW HELMUT REACTED TO FINDING the house empty on his return from Zurich . |
| 8 | He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was soon to give up her own acting career — which she never took seriously — to — spoil him ? |
| 11 | Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from . |
| 12 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One said : ‘ It might not be a bad idea if it was all to come out . |
| 20 | She hoped then that perhaps it was all to end here — that the act would be something separate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 23 | But more important than this particular theory ( which he was later to modify substantially ) was Lombroso 's role as the founder of the positive school of criminology . |
| 24 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 25 | His manners to her had always been impeccable , which made what he was shortly to do all the more shocking . |
| 26 | For most of the period from 1912 to 1945 Rhee lived in the United States where he was eventually to build up support from American friends , who assisted in financing his activities . |
| 27 | He was soon to find out . |
| 28 | Once again a single victory had given the English king the illusion of conquest in Scotland , but , like his grandfather Edward I , he was soon to discover how little support there really was in Scotland for his settlement . |
| 29 | He was here to hammer home plans to spend more on education . |
| 30 | He was then to return home at once via Montreal , using his Thomas Leavy identity on re-entering the United States so as to avoid any tell-tale entry stamp in his passport . |