Example sentences of "was [to-vb] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 2 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 3 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 4 | One of the most dangerous stunts Crawford did in the new series was to hang on to the back of a car as it dangled over sea and rocks two hundred feet below . |
| 5 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |