Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 2 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 3 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 4 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 5 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 6 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 7 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 8 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 9 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 10 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 11 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |
| 12 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 13 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 14 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |