Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] him [prep] [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 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 3 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 4 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 8 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 9 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 10 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 11 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 12 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 13 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 14 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
| 15 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 16 | In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics . |
| 17 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 18 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 19 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 20 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |