Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 2 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 3 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 4 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 5 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 6 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 7 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 8 | Miss Sherwin added : ‘ You can infer from these circumstances and the large amount of cash he had on him that he was intending to be selling those tabs that night . ’ |
| 9 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 10 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 11 | It sunk into 30,000 delegates and millions watching at home that this man knew he was not a charismatic orator but he knew , too , that he was going to be President and he could handle it . |
| 12 | He shot a 69 , three-under-par , and although it was n't leading , it did n't change my thinking that he was going to be there at the finish . |
| 13 | He used affirmations daily , and knew that he was going to be there . |
| 14 | James Gilbey , whose intimate phone call to Diana was taped , yesterday laughed off suggestions that he was going to be her public escort . |
| 15 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 16 | A difficult moment for me occurred when Phil Collins came on the show , simply because what I knew but he did n't , was that he was going to be my first guest on This Is Your Life the following week . |
| 17 | Then , changing the subject , he told her that he was going to be the new head of economic analysis at Chessington-Harris . |
| 18 | He had already completed his required 30 , but had always said from the start that he was going to be along on my last one , and he did it . |
| 19 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 21 | Rostov knew that he was going to be able to kick again long before Alexei was in contact with a surface . |
| 22 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 23 | Now that he was going to be with Sims for most of the day , knowing what was on the photographs was an uncomfortable burden . |
| 24 | The other letter informed the victim that he was going to be prosecuted for overloading his builder 's van , he was in fact prosecuted and fined . |
| 25 | Earlier , the court heard that Gilfoyle , himself an auxilliary nurse at Murrayfield , had told friends that he was going to be promoted and was studying to deal with suicide cases . |
| 26 | Did you hear Christopher saying that he was going to be getting erm a new Cavalier ? |
| 27 | And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . " |
| 28 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 29 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 30 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |