Example sentences of "i [be] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 2 | ‘ Now , Faye says I 'm just to go ahead , ’ Miranda said crisply , a fortunate intrusion on Belinda 's too-circular thoughts . |
| 3 | Well , I 'm there to carry out orders , so I relented . |
| 4 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 5 | I immediately took this to be a delusion — a sign that I was shortly to withdraw forever into a blissful lunatic world of favourite food fantasies . |
| 6 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 7 | I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves . |
| 8 | I was soon to find out . |
| 9 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 10 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 11 | I WAS NEVER TO KNOW HOW HELMUT REACTED TO FINDING the house empty on his return from Zurich . |
| 12 | He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground . |
| 13 | I had read enough to know that the way the Bristol Cancer Help Centre promulgated was a considerable challenge , although how hard a challenge I was only to appreciate later . |