Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 2 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 3 | ‘ She asked if you were all right , ’ Leith replied , not certain that she was n't breaking confidences , but feeling she would have to be far tougher than she was not to give in to his unspoken plea for some salve on his pain . |
| 4 | From the moment it was obvious that the Schlieffen Plan had failed and that Imperial Germany was not to sweep through to Paris in a brief , punitive , conflict , the Great War became one of grinding attrition . |
| 5 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |
| 6 | A new Frankenstein monster was about to lurch on to the front pages of the tabloids — the proto-fascist skinhead , scourge of the immigrant and the helpless OAP . |
| 7 | Although convinced in his own mind that his decision to resign was correct , his confidence was slowly undermined by a growing awareness that the party itself was about to respond violently to what it considered to be a cowardly act of betrayal . |
| 8 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 9 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 10 | He was about to go back to the company when he realised that in the middle of the town was a house where an old man lived , exactly where the company were planning to build their new station ; and the old man was refusing to sell . " |
| 11 | She was about to go out to it , but he called her back , opening a third door in the rear wall of the room . |
| 12 | Stepping up onto the landing , he was about to walk over to the door when a large hand dropped onto his shoulder . |
| 13 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 14 | She was about to sail home to Portugal . |
| 15 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 16 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 17 | By May , when a note from Rome told her the Brownings ' party was about to come back to Florence , she felt much more stable . |
| 18 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 19 | My next problem was how to get back to the hotel before my stomach gave a repeat performance . |
| 20 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |