Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 His manners to her had always been impeccable , which made what he was shortly to do all the more shocking .
2 Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance .
3 He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground .
4 However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ?
5 The poor man was here to get over a bereavement .
6 In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left .
7 It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide .
8 He was there to hand over a cheque to the charity .
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