Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 2 | If the king-duke did not order a specific meal , they were to be ready with pork , beef , cabbages ( caulibus ) , mustard , and hens ; and if one of the co-seigneurs was knighted , he was to wait upon the king-duke wearing ‘ red hose of scarlet and gilded spurs or shoes ’ while he ate . |
| 3 | They were to be punishable under the Forest laws , however , if their dogs coursed in the royal forest . |
| 4 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 5 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |