Example sentences of "were to take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle . |
| 2 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 3 | He told her his instructions were to take her wherever she wanted to go , but nothing else . |
| 4 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 5 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 6 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 7 | The clay tile and its descendant , the plastic pipe , were to take their place alongside the plough and the axe as among the major agents in the settlement of England . |
| 8 | If the management of Stringfellows Nightclub in London 's West End were to take their snobbish door-policy to its ultimate conclusion and investigate the social backgrounds of their glittering clientele , at least one regular would be out on his ear . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if we were to take our sample from those families with above-average measured incomes , we would expect to find that many of them had only temporarily high incomes so that average transitory income would be positive and Y p < Y. Similarly , for a sample of families with below-average measured incomes , we should expect to find that Y T < 0 and Y p > Y. |
| 10 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 11 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 12 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 13 | They were to take some of the lawyer 's personal possessions , his wallet , his watch and his jacket , and , if the opportunity arose , they were to take his car as well . |