Example sentences of "was to [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her island trip that year was to Pa/1ros , perhaps the most successful that she ever made : -it is the setting of her story ‘ In a Different Light ’ . |
| 2 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
| 3 | Yes , well this is , this is what the intention of the comprehensive school was in the beginning was to ha , let every child have the same opportunity which I 'm sure they 're getting in the comprehensive school . |
| 4 | Cos I was to ha because I had nobody to have kids , she goes , she goes fetch them down , husband 'll have them . |
| 5 | Their role was to pro to provide raw materials to countries like Britain and France , classically . |
| 6 | that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year |
| 7 | One was to erm reimburse them for er errors that we feel that er , we could have avoided . |
| 8 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 9 | erm for various things and er one of the earliest er minor awards which the Education Committee had was to erm a girl from Ruth who wanted to take erm erm a course for erm the N P S , the Pharmaceutical er Society 's |
| 10 | but then later on it was to erm , |
| 11 | Er it might be nice if someone was to er obtain something . |
| 12 | One of the best suggestions I heard was to er change it to Channel Four . |
| 13 | And when it started to wind , they 'd bang the coal on , they 'd bang the empties off and my job was to er tt push the empties , split them , split the empties , |
| 14 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 15 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 16 | If I was to er ask you to er just for the next ten minutes to start listing out the advertisers that you think might go into these , my guess is you 'd only get twenty five percent |
| 17 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 18 | They were n't in the actual flat at that time er their role was to er prevent members of the public whilst the armed officers were at the scene erm from entering the corridors at either end of the block of flats . |
| 19 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 20 | Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind . |
| 21 | I mean if I was to s stand here and tell you that self-raising flour is classed as an X one , as a class one explosive dust |
| 22 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 23 | No I was to co |
| 24 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |