Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 2 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 3 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 4 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 5 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 6 | One of the concepts which gained new prominence in the mid-1980s , and which was to be of concern to Labour traditionalists , was that of ‘ heterosexism ’ . |
| 7 | Parliament listed a number of goods , known as the ‘ enumerated articles ’ , which the colonies were not allowed to send anywhere outside the empire , and which were to be carried out only in ships from England or from the country of origin . |
| 8 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 9 | There was a Being who had made all things and who was to be feared . |
| 10 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 11 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 12 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 13 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 14 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 15 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 16 | The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance . |
| 17 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 18 | That was Jackie 's third championship in the bag and there was to be only one more race for him , his ninety-ninth , in Canada , where he finished fifth . |
| 19 | Suffolk had received £6.5 million of new transfer money from the Government and there was to be no change in the level of funding . |
| 20 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 21 | The fees were set at £6 for the Junior Department and £10 for the Senior ; and there was to be no age differentiation in future . |
| 22 | He brought the doctor back to earth in Doctor Dolittle 's Return ( 1933 ) , and there was to be one last book , Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake , built round the story of the Flood with Dr Dolittle as a latter-day Noah . |
| 23 | Corporate income tax was reduced by one percentage point to 31 per cent and there was to be a one-off rebate of 5 per cent in personal income tax . |
| 24 | John Patten was to reply to the debate on education and there was to be a debate on defence . |
| 25 | Five gallons of wine was to be levied on every half acre of land , and there was to be an additional tax on manpower . |
| 26 | If all went awry and there was to be a last ditch fight for the city , this is where it would take place . ) |
| 27 | And there was to be the big industrialists , three or four of them . |
| 28 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 29 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 30 | He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day , laughing over reminiscences . |