Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was never ill , but now she looked beaten and angered by something he must be doing to her . |
| 32 | He must be talking to Dr Greene by now . |
| 33 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 34 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 35 | ‘ He 'll be transferred to hospital for a whole series of tests and X-rays , and the results will determine the treatment he 's given . |
| 36 | He says he 'll be complaining to the chief constable . |
| 37 | He 'll be clinging to the hope that we 'll keep his father 's bones safe for our part — and Isambard he wants for his own . ’ |
| 38 | He 'll be going to centre of erm dog standing out there . |
| 39 | He 'll be returning to an empty fairground of deserted stalls , with only the faint remembered echo of the music that he 's been ignoring . |
| 40 | It 's expected he 'll be taken to the Horton General Hospital in Banbury . |
| 41 | He 'll be brought to his senses . |
| 42 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |
| 43 | One person on his own could not constitute a procession , but if a person were to march on his own , having publicised the fact widely in advance , it would seem that he might be said to be organising a procession if , Pied Piper like , he were to draw a crowd of supporters and followers . |
| 44 | He might be posted to Indo-China , I suppose . |
| 45 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 46 | He decided to ring Seymour-Strachey later , about tea-time , when he might be presumed to be in . |
| 47 | He might be legitimising Goldsmiths ' current practice ( in which , ironically , women are very active participants ) and he might be pandering to a new Europeanisation … but the notion that Arte povera , in this limited manifestation , is ‘ representative of a crucial revolutionary moment — even of the last possible revolutionary moment ’ is a load of cobblers . |
| 48 | How do you know she 's left you ? ’ asked Pascoe , still suspicious that he might be listening to the self-deceiving euphemism of murder . |
| 49 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 50 | I thought he might be going to Canon Wheeler 's . ’ |
| 51 | Yes he has , he 's just been up there to do them cos he thought he might be going to school now he 's decided he 's not so we 'll put the school clothes away again . |
| 52 | Stephen said he might be going to the Murray . |
| 53 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
| 54 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 55 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
| 56 | I du n no , I du n no whether he 's erm he really could be , I mean he could be the thing is he could be compared to a hobo . |
| 57 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Amiss helpfully , ‘ he could be pretending to be deaf and dumb . |
| 58 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 59 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 60 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |