Example sentences of "[vb base] him to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 2 | This power can only belong to a person if others acknowledge him to be an expert . |
| 3 | His cold and frankly hypocritical accusations against Diana , detailed in TODAY , reveal him to be the perpetrator of his family 's problems . |
| 4 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 5 | I consider him to be an intellectual pygmy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 7 | We believe him to be a saint , do n't we , sisters ? " |
| 8 | Take the examples of these verbs suggested by Bolinger : ( 105 ) I believe him to be the man . |
| 9 | Reso 's widow Patricia , who went to the court , said of Seale : ‘ I believe him to be an evil person , a sick person . |
| 10 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 11 | I feel him to be a lost soul , a good one , an excellent one , but a lost and unhappy one . |
| 12 | It introduces a wonderful idea , that strangers from afar find the Christ and discover him to be the Saviour of the world . |