Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 2 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
| 3 | Under the tutelage of John Ruskin [ q.v. ] he joined the ‘ Hinksey roadmenders ’ , and through him was later introduced to Octavia Hill [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 5 | He were n't engaged to her , she 's a married woman . |
| 6 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 7 | " I take it you would be happier if your boy was effeminate than if he were somehow connected to some Irish political group . " |
| 8 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 9 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 10 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 11 | He was finally apprenticed to a cordwainer or master shoe-maker . |
| 12 | He was both listening to suggestions and putting forward names that other people had suggested . |
| 13 | Now he was scarcely talking to her , but more to himself , analysing and defining as always . |
| 14 | He was coldly determined to be a good lover . |
| 15 | He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ . |
| 16 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 17 | If he was not a god himself , he was intimately linked to God , a manifestation of God 's favour and God 's will . |
| 18 | All went well , and he was duly admitted to St Paul 's College in Cheltenham from the Islington Trinity National School , having been awarded a Queen 's Scholarship , second class . |
| 19 | He was probably connected to the London commercial and financial dynasty , perhaps through Sir Richard Gresham [ q.v. ] , who had acquired extensive monastic properties in Yorkshire at the dissolution . |
| 20 | He was probably apprenticed to the east coast coal trade . |
| 21 | Although discussions took place about a possible return to the former scale of activity , Newlove 's health did not improve and he was physically limited to Wells where either One-Year or Terminal courses continued until 1934 when the WEA branch became inactive . |
| 22 | He was accordingly sent to a family that had no sons . |
| 23 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 24 | During the early and middle sixties he was firmly attached to such composers as Bach , Haydn and , especially , Schumann . |
| 25 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 26 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 27 | He was universally considered to be no good , lazy and a bad manager . |
| 28 | Although he was affectionately known to all as ‘ Broomstick ’ , this fetching nickname severely underestimated the enormity of his appendage . |
| 29 | A competent scholar who had an inbred regard for the pastoral needs of country congregations , he was exactly suited to his place , upon which he never needed to insist , and its responsibilities , which he more than adequately fulfilled . |
| 30 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |