Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 2 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 5 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 6 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 7 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 8 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |