Example sentences of "he be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 2 | So will he be returning to sea ? |
| 3 | As many practitioners know only too well , many pleas in mitigation would hardly get off the ground if they were not able to point to the possibility of the accused losing his job if he were sent to prison or were to have his driving licence suspended . |
| 4 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 5 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 6 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | PECKINPAH 'S LAST masterpiece , with James Coburn gloomily remembering , as he is shot to death , how he betrayed his values by tracking down free spirit Kris Kristofferson . |
| 8 | He is sentenced to death but dies in prison . |
| 9 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 10 | Next there is the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 11 | ‘ the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 12 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 13 | Likewise , to give the fistula-suffering monarch ( Hugh Ross ) rather more than his fair share of Fisher King-like significance , he is made to stagger about in a stagy , enfeebled agony that could compete with Amfortas 's travails in Parsifal . |
| 14 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 15 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 16 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 17 | He is going to work on them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 19 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 20 | The smoked window doors slam shut and he is removed to gnome hospital . |
| 21 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 22 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 23 | Oh he 's speaking to pussy . |
| 24 | But he 's go to sleep that quick though do n't he ? |
| 25 | ‘ He 's goin' to head-up world planning operations from Detroit . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , and he 's trying to sort of to put a erm a picture in your mind of , of these er er specific things and here is one , here is one , they 're not all like that , however I think th this may be a very good way of er of getting the whole lot overthrown , he may be erm I mean how do you , how do you define these things ? |
| 27 | Mind you , I do n't know what he 's taking to work today cos we have n't got any bread . |
| 28 | Unless he 's promoted to Superintendent , he 'll face demotion , the sack or early retirement . |
| 29 | He 's running to fat , too . |
| 30 | He 's going to mass . |