Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 2 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 3 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 4 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
| 5 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 6 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 7 | The ‘ English gentleman ’ star spent five days in hospital with a perforated ulcer — and was told he was drinking himself to death . |
| 8 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 10 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 11 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 12 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 13 | He said he was taking him to obedience classes but he was n't . |
| 14 | I 'm glad I ai n't at Combe Court now — that 's where he was taking me to . |
| 15 | He was taking her to St Bartholomew 's , the hospital where he was a junior physician . |
| 16 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 17 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 18 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 19 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 20 | He was asking her to be his mistress . |
| 21 | He was showing them to me . ’ |
| 22 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 23 | Gyggle also had some good news for me — he was to accompany me to London . |
| 24 | He was forcing her to be careful of what she said ; setting up areas which were not to be talked about . |
| 25 | Her eyes fell irresistibly to the firm , broad chest , the gleam of hard , taut muscle and then he was pulling her to him , kissing her mouth , her neck , the base of her throat , finding the clasp of her bra , discarding it , so that her breasts hung heavy and exposed , aching with longing and desire . |
| 26 | Lesley says Cindy left him because she felt he was tying her to DeKalb . |
| 27 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 28 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 29 | He said he was growing it to me . |
| 30 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |