Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around him the usual Massgoers , Benedicta included , watched fascinated as Athelstan urged the soul to go out to meet his Christ , whilst he , Athelstan , priest of that church , summoned God 's army to meet this unfortunate man 's soul ; they were to lead it into Paradise and ensure it did not fall into the hands of Satan . |
| 2 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 3 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 4 | In the following car were the Sheikha , her daughter , Hussa and Selma who were to accompany us to London . |
| 5 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 6 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 7 | Llewelyn was close in his chamber with his chaplain-secretary and Ednyfed Fychan over the dictation of letters , and his seal was already on the credentials of the envoys who were to represent him in Shrewsbury ; but David , when he heard what the messenger had to report , on his own authority brought him in to the conference and shattered it . |
| 8 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 9 | Burghley Park became his study and there he formulated his religious ideas which were to alienate him from society for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 11 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I thought the idea was to see everybody in action first . ’ |
| 13 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 14 | His first and continuing urge was to drive him towards crisis and clarity , which involved , one might almost say which meant , finding a podvig that would satisfy his idea of Stavrogin . |
| 15 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late . |
| 17 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 18 | The intention of the ‘ residents ’ was to familiarize themselves with sections of the working class , to develop a sense of contact , both physical and spiritual , between rich and poor . |
| 19 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 20 | For most of the time , however , it was as their future queen that this undoubtedly attractive child — Henri II 's ‘ most perfect child ’ — was to enchant everyone in France , apart from Catherine de' Medici . |
| 21 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |
| 22 | Here we have a maritime application of the same principle which , by land , determined Corinth 's attitude to Athens and Megara ; Corinth 's policy was to strengthen whichever of Athens or Aigina looked the weaker , so as to prevent the stronger from controlling the Saronic Gulf . |
| 23 | Thérèse and Léonie loved it too , quarrelling over whose turn it was to load it with grapes and plums , arranged in blue and green pyramids , and carry it in . |
| 24 | The only way to see if he was world class was to play him against world class opposition … how many times did he play in the World cup ? ? |
| 25 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 26 | The important thing now was to let him save face . |
| 27 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 28 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 29 | Er , if you was to put everything on top of each other , for example , then erm , there 's probably little gaps between one section and another , and those little gaps are using extra memory . |
| 30 | In the end I decided the best thing was to put you to bed and let you sleep it off . ’ |