Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man . |
| 2 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 3 | The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered . |
| 4 | She was no longer angry , and he was not to be thrashed for spying on her and Tom Fish . |
| 5 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 6 | Now time had run out and he was about to be plunged back into the horrible reality of his own miserable country , and particularly its miserable politics . |
| 7 | Carson had nowhere to hide , and he was about to be joined from the upper terrace . |
| 8 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 9 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 10 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 11 | The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) . |