Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
2 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
3 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
4 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
5 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |