Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were n't to it . |
| 2 | Secondly , if on the other hand he were completely to subordinate himself to the new Government his influence in Parliament and the country would quickly be eroded . |
| 3 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 4 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 5 | She looked round for Leo , but he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | Still he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | But he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 10 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 11 | Aye , now Jean I do n't know what 's happened to him , but he was away to Australia like , and er he came back and Janine 's boy was in , her new one Acky 's never met him you see , Gareth |
| 12 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |
| 13 | ‘ He was round to me at the office the other day , wondering if I had any letters . |
| 14 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was just to bizarre in the end , wanting too much clever play . |
| 16 | The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered . |
| 17 | The doctor said he was n't to be excited . ’ |
| 18 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
| 19 | But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture . |
| 20 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 21 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 22 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 23 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 24 | Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château . |
| 25 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | She was no longer angry , and he was not to be thrashed for spying on her and Tom Fish . |
| 27 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 28 | He was not to waster them . |
| 29 | He was not to be summoned at short notice or dropped in on , but was to be treated as one would a man whose time was as valuable as one 's own . |
| 30 | In all , Hughes missed four clear chances but he was not to be denied and his 11th goal of the season came after 41 minutes . |