Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] him to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 2 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 3 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 4 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 5 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 6 | Carried away by his own eloquence , he said blithely that his father would surely prefer him to be married . |
| 7 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 8 | I would dearly wish him to be there and yet I would not impose on his convictions . ’ |