Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 2 | We were to ride in a rickshaw which was itself a gift from a delighted tourist . |
| 3 | It was selected to produce three train sets , each of nine coaches , that were to run in a train known as the ‘ Coronation Scot ’ . |
| 4 | For me , this was really a fantastic prospect , for we were to live in a college where we were to have our own bedroom , bathroom and sitting-room , and all meals provided . |
| 5 | The figures if the Revenue were to succeed in a Furniss v Dawson attack may , of course , be considerable . |
| 6 | A map issued in November 1933 , showed the trolleybus routes that the Board was to include in a Bill to be put before Parliament . |
| 7 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 8 | It is perhaps not coincidental that this period of turmoil was to result in a work described as a ‘ landmark in Mozart 's earlier keyboard works , only paralleled in pathos and intensity by the Fantasy and Sonata in C minor ’ ( K.457 and K.475 ) . |
| 9 | Another of his mistakes was to live in a flat eight floors up . |
| 10 | Many years later , married and with small children , I was to live in a house with a garden which had a gate into Green Walk , the only place where I 've actually seen a nightingale . |
| 11 | George Neilson in Scotland [ q.v. ] , and Goddard Orpen in Ireland , she was to prove in a stream of articles and books that motte and bailey castles did not appear in these isles until after the Norman invasion . |
| 12 | When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort . |