Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 32 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 33 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 34 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 35 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 36 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |
| 37 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 38 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |