Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 2 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 3 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 4 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 5 | Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him . |
| 6 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 7 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |