Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 2 | He was heard to say to Winner , ‘ You know , I feel that in this sequence I 'm running a bit too slowly . |
| 3 | Choukeir claims he was invited to return to Kim 's flat , but there was a disupte . |
| 4 | He was invited to come to Teheran to talk to Carter after dinner . |
| 5 | The suggestion that a disputant would hold back from making as wide approaches as possible , because he was bound to adhere to a proper genealogical order of call on manpower , is inherently implausible given the distribution of Zuwaya within their territory , and given the assumption that people under threat wish to survive . |
| 6 | The Kiwis ' left-winger having hardly touched the ball , he was asked to point to the chosen chap for confirmation . |
| 7 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 8 | ‘ He was seen going to the top of the tower . |
| 9 | So long as he was successful in that action too , a further thirty days later he was authorized to proceed to execution . |
| 10 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 11 | That had been when he was made known to Robert Asshe , Dinah 's father , heir of a long line of actors . |
| 12 | He was determined to lie to her to the very end . |
| 13 | Having chosen the role of the infinitely reasonable older man , he was determined to stick to it — ‘ you have read too many detective stories . ’ |
| 14 | In 1903 he was a CMS missionary in Khartoum and acting chaplain to the forces but , on medical grounds , he was compelled to retire to England later that year . |
| 15 | In 1643 he was colonel of foot and captain of horse for Lancashire , as well as vice-admiral for Lancashire and Westmorland , and then in 1644 governor of Liverpool , which he was compelled to surrender to a superior Royalist force under Prince Rupert [ q.v. ] , though he himself escaped . |
| 16 | When they got home , he was told to go to bed , and meekly obeyed . |
| 17 | At length we were called to an ante-room , where he was told to strip to the waist and wait . |
| 18 | In the village he was told to come to us because we came from Yugoslavia too . |
| 19 | Although he was allowed to travel to Germany on " humanitarian grounds " for the funeral of Willy Brandt [ see p. 39160 ] , Gorbachev was forced to cancel other planned visits . |
| 20 | Goma still showed signs of his beating when he was allowed to emigrate to France shortly afterwards . |
| 21 | Here a useful parallel may be found not in law , but in Remigius 's admonition addressed to Clovis at the start of his reign : although the king was still pagan he was advised to listen to his bishops . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you . |
| 23 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 24 | Even as the thought came to the forefront of his mind , Alexei knew that it could never be that simple — that he was forced to conform to alien culture and alien reasoning . |
| 25 | Only the knowledge that , by any modern standards , he was a genuinely quick bowler persuaded Ellcock to stay in the game and continue the battle for fitness when he was forced to return to his adopted London home from England 's tour of his native West Indies in 1990 without bowling a competitive ball . |
| 26 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |
| 27 | The iron will of Lady Franklin bent the egotistical ornithologist under her sway , and he was forced to capitulate to someone else 's wishes . |
| 28 | Maxim leafed through them because — as he was forced to admit to himself-he had no idea of how to approach Clare Hall . |
| 29 | He was forced to fly to Colombo last month to rescue a New Zealand tour after a Tamil suicide bomber blew himself up just 50 yards from the Kiwis ' team hotel . |
| 30 | Second , he was expected to lead to war the king 's benefice-holders ( vassi ) from within his county . |