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 . |