Example sentences of "[was/were] to go [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 3 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | We were to go into the mountains and spend one night in tents before making our rendezvous the next day . |
| 5 | And how many officers were to go into the flat ? |
| 6 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 7 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 8 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 9 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 10 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 11 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 12 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 13 | The primary school curriculum was to go beyond the basics of English and mathematics , which in any case should be seen in the wider context of other subjects . |
| 14 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 15 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 16 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 17 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 18 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 19 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 20 | He was to go to a hotel where arrangements would be made for him to meet Meehan . |
| 21 | And the other method was to go to the menus and choose , file , admin link refresh . |
| 22 | Men were designated by superior officers as being lazy , inefficient , absolutely worthless , and whose only object in life was to go to the pay table on Wednesdays to receive their pay . |
| 23 | The second , even greater and more prolonged misfortune , was to go to the USA , where the agency she worked for had their head office . |
| 24 | From his moneys , each school was to pay a master £10 per annum and forty shillings was to go to the trustees to cover expenses of their meetings . |
| 25 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 26 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 27 | I later learned that , when they went off together in that fashion , it was to go to the pictures . |
| 28 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 29 | I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL . |
| 30 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |