Example sentences of "he was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasser 's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way , and sometimes awkward ( ‘ Hidden in the near future , he was to be proved right ’ ) . |
| 2 | He was to be frequently found at various ‘ gigs ’ with his Buckskin Boys — a square-dance group of three , of which he was the leader . |
| 3 | He was to be , as he called himself later , ‘ the poet of the two great intimacies ’ : together , in balance , and genuinely . |
| 4 | If Moby became mildly excited , or interested in another dog , he was to be allowed forward on the extendable lead to meet it . |
| 5 | Leavis , who notoriously had no hesitation about attacking canonical figures , was closer to this tradition , however much he detested the belletrist spirit , than he was to later developments in academic criticism . |
| 6 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 7 | Since he was to be the founder of the service of carols and nine lessons , he made a permanent mark on English , and not only English , life and religion . |
| 8 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 9 | Tony gave me his thoughts on the situation — about how pleased he was to be wandering around at four in the morning , in the pitch black , in deep snow , in the cold , in the wind . |
| 10 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 11 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 12 | And Dean set up ATP with backing from RKO , although he was to be rapidly disappointed in his expectation that the company would provide him both with technical expertise and favourable distribution in the US . |
| 13 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 14 | Counsel said that there was evidence that Palmer liked to cuddle and play with the baby and how proud he was to be the baby 's father , as he thought . |
| 15 | He began by saying how glad he was to be in Europe again , which gave him an opportunity to outline some of the developments taking place in other regions of the world , and to describe the next phase in the development of the world car . |
| 16 | He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service . |
| 17 | He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her . |
| 18 | He was to be the thirteenth , the equal of the Twelve . |
| 19 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 20 | He was to be , in fact , the common progenitor of Jews , Muslims and Christians , as North explained in a note to Reagan later . |
| 21 | Since what was , in fact , a remarkably brief reign as the seeming Generalmusikdirektor of Europe ( in the late 1950s Karajan held important posts simultaneously in Vienna , Berlin , Salzburg , Milan , and London ) , he was to some extent suspect in English-speaking countries , where there is a naturally healthy distrust of cultural super-heroes , of the idea of the conductor as Übermensch . |
| 22 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 23 | He fumbled his way into the chair provided for visitors and put a hand over his lips so that I should n't see how close he was to tears . |
| 24 | If after that he could not find sureties for his future good behaviour , he was to be banished . |
| 25 | Later the same year , he was to be denied a place in the British Olympic football team on the grounds that he was a professional cricketer . |
| 26 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 27 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 28 | Of course , he was to some extent screened from the uncomfortable reality . |
| 29 | He was to be found lurking in the band 's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory , which was often . |
| 30 | He was almost as hostile to his own mother as he was to Elinor 's , even though the politesse observed by his family meant he had not yet worked out a way of expressing it . |