Example sentences of "[noun] she [be] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Every spring she was to be found visiting Fife .
2 For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales .
3 Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible .
4 It tells a dark and passionate story of love and hatred , as a young bride elopes with her lover on the morning of the day she was to be married to her childhood sweetheart .
5 Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it .
6 The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death .
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