Sentence examples for in was to from inspiring English sources

"My goal going in was to preserve the Democratic backbone of the Fifth District.

He said the real reason his force had been sent in was to instill confidence in residents that the government could protect them.

One of the reasons they brought me in was to get the kids excited about what they can do and to really lay a map for the future of American track and field, Jacobs said yesterday.

"But deep down, you've got to say, 'Hey, it's Michael Phelps.' I mean, my goal going in was to go as fast as I could and see where that would take me.

"One of our objectives coming in was to take capital off the table, to raise enough capital so that this would not be again a topic of conversation at quarterly results," said Thiam, who was brought in to restore investor confidence in the struggling bank.

We do think that that is lessening to some degree, both in response to the very successful improvement in cooperation between Nigeria and Chad; but also because Buhari has clearly signalled that he wants to cooperate with his neighbours; and one of his first trips after he was sworn in was to the regional states to try to improve this cooperation.

"I always thought, and I pushed this internally but we could never get buy-in, was to change the name.

The earliest memory I have of my family going to a drive-in was to see "Cat Ballou".

The Cardiff crowd's response to his contretemps with Swann and Broad – which Siddle passed off as "just a little run-in" – was to burst into a chorus of "Siddle's a wanker".

But in its current mood, the British public has had a far harder time mustering much sympathy for Fred Barras, who at 16 had already had a record of 29 convictions for theft, burglary, forgery and assault, and who had told friends that the Bleak House break-in was to be his first "big job".

We first heard that the luxury plug-in was to be delivered in 2009, making is one of the first PHEVs out in the public.