Example sentences of "was [to-vb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 2 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 3 | He was to get me out of there fast , and be sure nobody saw me leave . |
| 4 | Fortunately , my persistent ‘ need to know ’ was to get me there in the end . |
| 5 | The only effect of these humiliations and challenges was to make me even more determined to overcome Karen 's scruples . |
| 6 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 7 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |