Example sentences of "[verb] [ex0] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 2 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said . |
| 4 | And I doubt the night in question was well past before ever Adam called attention to the sacrilege , and what signs there were to be read were long gone . ’ |
| 5 | Though it grated on their code of hospitality , the island hosts then decided there were to be no more gifts of food or drink , no more counselling or mapping , no more lending of labour , or advice . |
| 6 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 7 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 8 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 9 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I said there were to be no unaccompanied flights ? ’ she snaps . |