Example sentences of "he was [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 2 | She looked round for Leo , but he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | Still he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | But he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | Aye , now Jean I do n't know what 's happened to him , but he was away to Australia like , and er he came back and Janine 's boy was in , her new one Acky 's never met him you see , Gareth |
| 8 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was just to bizarre in the end , wanting too much clever play . |
| 10 | The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered . |
| 11 | He was rarely to be seen , unless attending to other people 's affairs , without a volume of some sort , generally of Plato or one of the Greek tragedians . |
| 12 | Although he helped to form the National Deaf and Dumb Society , he was also to be the main reason for its demise . |
| 13 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 14 | That was as much as he felt he could cope with for a while , but he was soon to be ‘ prevailed upon by government ’ to become chairman of British Steel in double harness with the Tate $ Lyle job . |
| 15 | He was soon to be taken prisoner in battle against the Persians . |
| 16 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 17 | Sid James had n't made a picture since the one that was without the Williams credit , Cabby , but he was soon to be almost a fixture on the set , playing parts as stereotyped as Ken 's . |
| 18 | He was often to be met in Whitehall committees in 1944 . |
| 19 | He was often to be found slumped in front of the television , muttering about nig-nogs . |
| 20 | He was often to be referred to as a modern pharaoh by Egyptians when he was in power ; and in particular the High Dam at Aswan was spoken of as Nasser 's pyramid . |
| 21 | If he was ever to be an artist , he should strive for more balance . |
| 22 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 23 | He was seldom to be found at meetings of the BPI , the industry 's body , or glad-handing at functions among bow-tie- and cumberbund-wearers . |
| 24 | Right then you suspected he was more to those Apaches than a friend or a boss . |
| 25 | Indeed , his stern morality and adherence to the ideals of classical republicanism , as mediated through such writers as Algernon Sidney and his own uncle by marriage , Henry Neville [ qq.v. ] , made him almost an archetypal ‘ country ’ member , and he was quickly to the forefront in the agitations against a standing army and political corruption in general . |
| 26 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 27 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 28 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 29 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 30 | But he was still to all intents and purposes uninterested . |