Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about the man aroused the guard 's suspicions , so he was asked to accompany them to the frontier post for further questioning . |
| 2 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 3 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 4 | He was trying to hold it to his chest . |
| 5 | In some ways Donaldson realised that it was he that was actually doing all the learning-Bobo was using a vocabulary that she 'd already acquired , whilst he was struggling to adapt himself to it . |
| 6 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 7 | From time to time he resorted to the saw ; the noise he was making deafened him to Ron Paget 's approach . |
| 8 | ‘ But by then I suppose he was having to say anything to the jury to save himself . |
| 9 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 10 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 11 | He was going to sell it to some Jew . |
| 12 | I thought he was I thought he was going to do something to himself . |
| 13 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 14 | He looked as if he was going to tell her to be quiet , and Maggie 's temper rose . |
| 15 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |