Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a rather anomalous , enormously fat woman called Foo Foo , who unfortunately has since died , and who appeared to be there to provide little joky episodes between the more serious artistic elements . |
| 2 | He had made the excuse that he needed to be there to greet the Prince of Wales , but making this pronouncement , which he had previously rehearsed many times , failed to fill him with the satisfaction he had anticipated . |
| 3 | Whether or not he felt an ounce of embarrassment ( probably not ) , it had to be enough to make him aware of waiters . |
| 4 | It was for the man who looked after the sewage outfall ; he had to be here to open the sluice whenever the tide was right . |
| 5 | The girl was bloody buggering Victoria Cross material , and he wanted to be there to see her run the Union Jack up the flagpole at Port Stanley . |
| 6 | As for Sylvia , there was something which could be working itself out between his only daughter and this Honourable : whether it would work out well or ill or at all , he wanted to be there to see it develop . |
| 7 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |