Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 2 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 3 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 4 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 5 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 6 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 7 | If he showed it to be an impossible concept , he continued to demonstrate that it remains a necessary one , and acknowledged that we must learn to live with that impossibility . |
| 8 | On the other hand , de Gaulle undoubtedly knew about the invasion plan , did not declare unambiguously against it ( because he needed it to be a plausible threat in order to coerce the republican leadership ) , and , when the regime 's resistance stiffened momentarily on 27 – 28 May , was willing to contemplate coming to power as a result of it . |
| 9 | Occasionally he hated her for it , because he took it to be a reproach of himself . |
| 10 | He knew himself to be a good forensic pathologist , reliable , more than competent professionally , almost obsessively thorough and painstaking , a convincing and unflappable witness . |
| 11 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 12 | But he knew it to be a frequently found trait , for most of the Noble Lords of Tara had long since dispersed and the enchanted Beastblood , once guarded so jealously , had nearly died out . |
| 13 | He felt himself to be a kind of recording angel ; it seemed necessary that someone should see all this who was aware of its sinfulness , of its stench in the nostrils of God . |
| 14 | Dean 's death had a profound effect on him — maybe he felt it to be a premonition . |
| 15 | He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention and authority if he felt it to be an impediment to his calling . |
| 16 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 17 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |
| 18 | If he wanted her to be a top model , she 'd behave like one . |
| 19 | That he wanted her to be a nuisance ? |
| 20 | He wanted her to be a real mother , not like Lucy . |
| 21 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 23 | I could n't help but think he wanted it to be a theme park . |
| 24 | It was Willie 's birthday on Thursday and he wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 25 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 26 | ‘ He wanted it to be a murder ? |
| 27 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 28 | " The Lord preserveth the simple , " came the Padre 's voice , quite aptly , it seemed to the Collector for he considered himself to be a simple man . |
| 29 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 30 | And yet now , it seemed , he considered her to be a horsewoman . |