Example sentences of "were [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 2 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 3 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 4 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 5 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 6 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |