Example sentences of "was to get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only hope was to get off-planet now , in the confusion of the explosions . |
| 2 | His big breakthrough was to get parliament to accept a high technology spending programme up to 1985 with a commitment to priorities . |
| 3 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |
| 4 | It is not all that many months ago that the right hon. Gentleman was saying to the House and to people beyond it that the most important thing was to get inflation down from its then level of 10.9 per cent . |
| 5 | Their only chance was to get Richards cheaply ; instead he made 84 not out off 65 balls , and , with Gomes also getting fifty , the margin was eight wickets . |
| 6 | The first thing though was to get Nigel into some clean , dry clothes . |
| 7 | She had no other great-nieces or nephews and it was accepted that Sara was her darling , that Sara was to get Moorlake House and what little money and possessions Aunt Alicia had left . |
| 8 | By 1900 ‘ Doncaster had a racecourse , Wolverhampton a cold store , Glasgow and Tunbridge Wells had telephone services ; a few years later , Birmingham was to get powers to establish its ‘ penny bank ’ ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:36 ) . |
| 9 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 10 | The first thing was to get hold of more reliable boats than the fragile collapsible canoes that were capable of withstanding a desert journey . |
| 11 | What I used to do was to get hold of them behind their hand . |
| 12 | But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't convinced until I saw how anxious Merlyn was to get hold of the box once I 'd mentioned it . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Oliver 's first thought was to get help . |
| 15 | She was suffused with indignation , but it did not appear Shildon had taken anything and the more urgent matter was to get help for Tavett . |
| 16 | However , no-one would listen to us and the Dampness Group realised that their first task was to get evidence to prove their common sense approach . |
| 17 | The effect of my activity was to get Catherine Hills put on screen . |
| 18 | Miles had been dropping heavy hints about how difficult it was to get petrol and how he intended to use the Cortina ‘ for emergency uses only ’ . |
| 19 | His task now was to get things into the hands of the professionals before he asked anyone to take his blood pressure for him . |
| 20 | The point was to get slaveholders to recognise that they would have to adopt ‘ the most economical mode of cultivation ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 22 | As one teacher put it : Oh , the aim of the Project initially from my point of view was to get pupils from the beginning of the first year to have the ability to actually look up information for themselves … |
| 23 | My first objective was to get pupils to spot how the sequence was built up . |
| 24 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
| 25 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 26 | Shooting a fierce look of hatred at Damian Flint beside her , striding along , his face hard , she saw a ruthless swine whose main objective was to get Rachel to be his wife so he could fulfil his ambitions and take Swift for his own . |
| 27 | His only real hope was to get Amaryllis to cross the Border with him . |
| 28 | The first priority was to get parachute training underway , and as there were no facilities in the Middle East everything had to be improvised . |
| 29 | The aim of Comic Relief was to get people to feel good while helping others , not to make them feel guilty because there were people worse off than them , she said . |
| 30 | Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes . |