Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as McQuaid met Moran 's domination of the evening with this sudden violence he was anxious to be conciliatory . |
| 2 | No wonder he was inclined to be defensive . |
| 3 | This , however , is probably unfair on both Moniz and the man whose work he was supposed to be responding to , Jacobsen ( Valenstein 1980 ) . |
| 4 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 5 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 6 | Back at home with their baby he was quick to be the one to change the nappies and administer the bottle feed once Liddie had given up breastfeeding . |
| 7 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 8 | Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table . |
| 9 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 10 | James intended one day to be equally celebrated , and as a dresser he was privileged to be at the bedside while the physician examined a patient . |
| 11 | I ca n't think of any other reason for him to walk out of the dinner he was supposed to be at . |