Example sentences of "[vb pp] him to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 2 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |
| 3 | For Forget , who had demonstrated such courage under pressure , ti was a match which , according to Borotra , had ‘ shown him to be a really great player ’ . |
| 4 | His mother and father had raised him to be a law-abiding Christian . |
| 5 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 6 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 7 | For my own part , I should not , judging by his face , have guessed him to be a poet . |
| 8 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 9 | One result of Crawford 's new success was to satisfy his grandmother , Edith Pike , who had always wanted him to be a TV star . |
| 10 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 11 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |
| 12 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 13 | Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death , his own private Baron Samedi . |
| 14 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |