Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 2 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 3 | He was one of those men who , once the bloom had gone ( in his case his hair ) , never seem to age , although a glance at Vacher 's Guide would have revealed him to be sixty-two . |
| 4 | One might even have thought him to be angry . |
| 5 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 6 | Emerson 's essay on ‘ history ’ begins , ‘ There is one mind common to all individual men ’ , whereas Eliot 's anthropological reading had taught him to be wary of the nineteenth-century assumption of what was ‘ in the words of M. Lévy-Bruhl , the uniformity of mind ’ . |
| 7 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 8 | She had expected him to be annoyed at the way she had played him along . |
| 9 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 10 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 11 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 12 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 13 | For some perverse reason she had wanted him to be annoyed . |
| 14 | She had warned him to be wary of the coarse and petty jealousies of common people . |
| 15 | He would be the one Rostov had warned him to be wary of . |
| 16 | Bill remarks that the criteria have helped him to be clearer about what is involved in being a good supervisor . |