Example sentences of "was [to-vb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 2 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 3 | Initially their aim was to set some rules and , as far as possible , stick to them . |
| 4 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 5 | The other possibility for this particular birthday was to press some flowers used at the birthday party or some of the flowers received as gifts . |
| 6 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 7 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |