Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] he [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will go along with things he considers to be in the best interests of the service and staff , but when hard decisions need to be made Jimmy will not be found wanting . ’ |
| 2 | There was Abdullah Ali , a businessman in exile , who was known to Rashid , and who had eaten in a restaurant in London with men he believed to be his friends , who had died in St Stephen 's Hospital of a rat poison that had been sprinkled on his food during a moment of inattention . |
| 3 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 4 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |
| 5 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |
| 6 | At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress . |