Example sentences of "[was/were] to he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women cast down , on whom life had left its mark , were to him sisters under the skin regardless of station . |
| 2 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 3 | He had not yet abandoned Christianity , and he would never abandon Christ , but the dogmas preached by his father were to him false . |
| 4 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 5 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 6 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 7 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 8 | He 's told me what a deadweight you were to him . |
| 9 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 10 | My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant . |
| 11 | Other people 's tragedies and sorrows were to him just good copy . |
| 12 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 13 | They were to he not only the routes to culture and the intellect but the means to romance and sort of sex . |
| 14 | Three or more miners were to he supplied and paid " from time to time " for the first three months but after this duration six able bodied miners were to he provided . |
| 15 | Three or more miners were to he supplied and paid " from time to time " for the first three months but after this duration six able bodied miners were to he provided . |
| 16 | Somehow , whatever she was to him , it was important for her to believe that . |
| 17 | He had a blank sort of face , and that was about all there was to him . |
| 18 | Just as Greek was to him a ‘ sacred language ’ , so ‘ every Baptist place should be Grecian , never Gothic ’ . |
| 19 | The only thing he could think of was he was a good swimmer — and a fat lot of good that was to him . |
| 20 | The only thing that was to him suspicious , was apart from the normality of liaisons at the hospital , there was no mention of a man in her life . |
| 21 | Its back was to him , flames still glowing deep in its side . |
| 22 | The deed was to him so monstrous , so surprising , that it would have been intolerable not to have shared it with a living soul . |
| 23 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
| 24 | No one , he thought , and despised himself for what was to him an unnatural need . |
| 25 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 26 | It was to him first and last a land full of Heroes . |
| 27 | The interpretation of his objective through committees , in which he could win over doubters , was to him a central part of the chairman 's task . |
| 28 | Politics is to me what privilege was to him . |
| 29 | Jane squeezed his arm , and the young man abruptly — shockingly — realized just how close she was to him . |
| 30 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |