Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bound to remember you with a little legacy . |
| 2 | Something about the man aroused the guard 's suspicions , so he was asked to accompany them to the frontier post for further questioning . |
| 3 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 4 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 7 | For all the importance that de Gaulle attached to securing the support of the Resistance , he was determined to secure it on his terms , i.e. in such a way as to reinforce his leadership and legitimize his movement before world opinion . |
| 8 | He was determined to torment her in any way he could . |
| 9 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 10 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 11 | It was late on Friday evening — Friday , May 9 , 1941 — and he was ordered to present himself at the office at ten past seven in the morning . |
| 12 | It , too , was nearly dead , but he was persuaded to release it in a bay long enough for it to be filmed with an underwater camera as it swam slowly above the bottom . |
| 13 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 14 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |