Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disembodied voice , that later I was to learn belonged to Cynthia , gently but firmly began to explain : ‘ I 'm not really sure that you should bring your work here . |
| 2 | Gascoigne was to have gone to Lazio at the end of July for the club to monitor his rehabilitation after the knee ligament operation that threatened his career . |
| 3 | Fox was to have gone to Trinity College , Cambridge , but that plan foundered with the sudden financial collapse in early 1857 of his father 's erstwhile flourishing business . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 5 | He telt me he was to get promoted to Under-Presser in Gentlemen 's Separates , but I canna see that happening . |