Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] he [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department .
2 During his remaining years here he continued to be active as a Justice of the Peace .
3 But as soon as the n the kid Nicky hits teenage years then he wants to be called Nick , whereas if the girl 's been christened Nicola and she 's called Nicky through her childhood , when she hits teens she 's still called Nicky .
4 Were there other reasons why he chose to be a bear ?
5 On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read .
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