Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 2 | With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy . |
| 3 | I understand the various accou er professional bodies in the accountancy industry are in fact doing that but I think the government should also do that because it is not just the probity of financial institutions we are concerned about , it is also er the auditing of other commercial concerns and it seems to be that in this case the public interest has taken second place to the government 's wish to do as little as possible , yet again the minister said in the debate that if we were to do anything further in response to a question put by my honourable friend the member for Grimsby , it would need legislation , primary legislation . |
| 4 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 5 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 6 | I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen . |
| 7 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 8 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 9 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 10 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 11 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 12 | I was to get his job — and now I was to drive him home to Bristol . |
| 13 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 14 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 15 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 16 | Later it was to lead him on to Oz , Ink , and Friends . |
| 17 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 18 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 19 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 20 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 21 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 22 | My existing plan was to grow them on to about 4in , at which size , on previous experience , a pair should form and spawn . |
| 23 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 24 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 25 | ‘ And I thought all would be well , if only I was to leave you both to yourselves ! ’ uttered Taggy crossly . |
| 26 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 27 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 28 | No , the sensible thing to do was to put it out of his mind and never refer to it again . |
| 29 | The first was to put it across to laymen , interested in science but inexpert in it . |
| 30 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |