Example sentences of "and they were to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 2 | I think if you look through the books , there are comments in there where they were n't sure , with question marks and they were to be rechecked . |
| 3 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 4 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 5 | He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day , laughing over reminiscences . |
| 6 | In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions . |