Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 2 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 3 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 4 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |