Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 4 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 5 | The next day Muldoon told him that he was returning to the States at the end of the month to take his enforced early retirement , after a short holiday on the Hamble . |
| 6 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 7 | Then , changing the subject , he told her that he was going to be the new head of economic analysis at Chessington-Harris . |
| 8 | Colin Campbell advised us that he was reporting to the General Purposes Committee on 3 December 1992 on the security of Headquarters buildings , recommending that all visitors sign in on arrival , receive and must wear a Visitor Identity Tag and sign out when leaving . |