Example sentences of "he was to be " 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service .
14 He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her .
15 He was to be the thirteenth , the equal of the Twelve .
16 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 .
17 He was to be , in fact , the common progenitor of Jews , Muslims and Christians , as North explained in a note to Reagan later .
18 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 .
19 If after that he could not find sureties for his future good behaviour , he was to be banished .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 He was to be found lurking in the band 's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory , which was often .
23 At that moment , for all his professionalism , he had no idea how right he was to be .
24 Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built .
25 Now , as he grew older and more mature , especially after his hectic and sometimes horrifying war experiences , he realised how lucky he was to be born and live in such a place .
26 Just before this , however , he won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford , with which he was to be associated until his death .
27 The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna .
28 Where now he was to be incarcerated as a hostage , a prisoner , an enemy .
29 This morning was the first time he was to be given a serious piece of work before running later in the week .
30 In the same year , Dustin was in London again as one of the guests at the Royal Command Performance of Love Story , where he was to be presented to the Queen Mother .
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