Example sentences of "she [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember my headmaster 's damning indictment : ‘ Jeannette could be a Cambridge scholar if she were to stop this nonsense of falling in love . ’ |
| 2 | She would need all her wits if she were to stand any chance of getting away from him . |
| 3 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 4 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 5 | She was to return four times , each time learning more about the ecology and the people . |
| 6 | She was to marry this mountebank , this hypocritical toad of a Sir Thomas . |
| 7 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 8 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |