Example sentences of "[was/were] to stand [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is simply natural , it 's a fact , you both know that whatever happens , even if God and the Devil were to stand in the way , you will have what you want . |
| 2 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 3 | By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down . |
| 4 | All the tug could do then was to stand by the tow until the gale abated . |
| 5 | The giveaway was to stand in the upstairs hall outside Albie 's old bedroom and examine the door . |
| 6 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 7 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |