Example sentences of "he was [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 2 | But how he was to do it when face to face with Pharaoh was far from certain . |
| 3 | Though this time when he went on , he was to leave her speechless and open-mouthed . |
| 4 | He had grown fond of this place , and now , soon , he was to leave it . |
| 5 | A CAMBRIDGE student has been found electrocuted in his room , just days before he was to receive his Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 8 | More difficult , he was to stop his fellow-officers trans-shipping drugs from Colombia to the United States . |
| 9 | A team-spokesman said : ‘ Zanardi has made a fantastic recovery , far better than was expected of him , and it would be a shame if he was to miss his home Grand Prix . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the century , however , when Edward Lear was living out his last years in Italy , a sick , embittered , and lonely old man , he was to regret his early generosity , and to resent the relationship that had evolved from it . |
| 11 | For the rest of his career he was to use his two Christian names , Hugh Kingsmill , as a nom de plume . |
| 12 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 13 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 14 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |
| 15 | She shrieked that he was to take his hands off her . |
| 16 | Major Maxim then told him that there was no special hurry and that he was to take his time and make his statement complete . |
| 17 | How generous he was to acknowledge his own defeat , when he asked one of his rivals -Parrhasius — to draw back the curtain and unveil the portrait underneath , and was told by the artist that the curtain itself was painted . |
| 18 | He decided to stay where he was to see what would happen . |
| 19 | Doubtless enamoured as he was to see his name in print , I hope that now , by use of the same medium , he will understand my thoughts which I sent with equally heartfelt intensity : so where the f— was Morrissey at Finsbury Park on Sunday ? |
| 20 | There he made friends for life in George Hooper and Francis Turner , who became fellow bishops , and with Thomas Thynne , in whose house he was to spend his long retirement . |
| 21 | Later he was to acquire his pleasure dome , his fabled mansion , his circular bed , his non-stop room service of food , drink , movies , closed circuit television and girls from the Bunnies ' dormitory , the Xanadu of the Middle West over which he presided as Chicago 's Kubla Khan . |
| 22 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 23 | He was to base it around one man — SIMON HALLIDAY . |
| 24 | Naturally , he joined the Cooper Grand Prix team and he was to spearhead their revolutionary rear-engined attack on the World Championship . |
| 25 | He was to describe him as ‘ a man of dangerous temper , apt to break out into extravagances ’ . |
| 26 | He was to paint her more than twenty-five times . |
| 27 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 28 | Although Ceauşescu continued to receive a daily deluge of congratulatory telegrams from tinpot rulers the world over until the last days of his rule , the reprinting of old praise from the Queen shows how desperate he was to present his people with evidence that he was acceptable to the West . |
| 29 | Paul Muni , though , was to arrive in America some thirty-three years before Peter Lorre and he was to develop his skills in New York 's Yiddish Theater . |
| 30 | If he was to catch thee , all thy fighting skills would n't be worth an ounce o' flea shit . ’ |