Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but you see then he 's at fault I mean like yesterday he come in he said he 's got to drop off at Milton Keynes and he said I , I , he were n't due to be dropped until what half past ten ? |
| 2 | He was particularly pleased to be patron of Great Ormond Street , he said , because he had been there himself as a child . |
| 3 | He was probably glad to be away from her nagging . ’ |
| 4 | He was desperately keen to be in action and was excited about being here in France . |
| 5 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 6 | It was n't how you might think — we did n't want a witness , we did n't want to show off that we were in love ; he was just easy to be with . |
| 7 | And er he was just delighted to be back of course and first thing he did was up to the house and had a he had a look round and he was in the byre and had these two awful grand . |
| 8 | But he was just happy to be on a court again at the Halle arena , a new stadium which has been modelled on the All-England club . |
| 9 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 10 | He was n't supposed to be in Jubilee Wood either . |
| 11 | I mean he was n't supposed to be in the fitting shop anyways . |
| 12 | He was n't likely to be satisfied with less . |
| 13 | Poor eyesight had prevented Thomas from qualifying as a pilot ; but he was not content to be a backroom boy . |
| 14 | ‘ On the Doctors letting him Blood ’ maintains that the treatment is useless unless his doctor will use his lance ‘ to prick my poetick Vein ’ , yet he is incensed ‘ On the Doctors telling him , that ‘ till he left off making Verses , he was not fit to be discharg 'd ’ . |
| 15 | He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen . |
| 16 | Fleury , unaware of the Collector 's plans for a graduated retreat because he was not supposed to be in the Residency anyway , had dashed upstairs carrying the fifteen-barrelled pistol with which he was hoping to do battle from the upper storeys . |
| 17 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 18 | Mrs Erica Chalkley , 65 , said she thought Mr Ashdown had ‘ leadership qualities ’ but she was unhappy about his military background and was ‘ glad on the whole ’ that he was not likely to be the next Prime Minister . |
| 19 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision . |
| 20 | He was not disposed to be easy with her . |
| 21 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 22 | He was also delighted to be given a bottle of whisky from his colleagues at Runcorn . |
| 23 | He was also later to be connected with both the Imperial Fascist League ( IFL ) and the BUF . |
| 24 | These duties had to be fulfilled alongside those of his conventional publishing business , and he was also supposed to be writing a scene for inclusion in what was to be a filmed version of Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 25 | Carradine and I decided he was most likely to be in the Noir et Blanc . |
| 26 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 27 | He was quite happy to be Marcus 's dog , but it was possible that Marcus relied on his assuming some more dignified role . |
| 28 | Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know . |
| 29 | But he was always sure to be back home in time for dinner every night . |
| 30 | On September 9 , 1969 , by which time Clinton knew his draft number was high and that he was therefore unlikely to be called up , he wrote to his friend Richard Stearns : ‘ Nothing could be more destructive of whatever fibre I have left than this mental torment . |