Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was of mature years , and he rightly guessed her to be Mrs Heatherton . |
| 2 | She told herself to clear all thought of their bankruptcy from her mind , to think like the rich he still believed them to be . |
| 3 | He also felt it to be out of keeping with the scale of neighbouring dwellings , particularly the Old School House . |
| 4 | The sense of injury Vitor felt over Thomas meant that he also considered her to be devious and untrustworthy , wickedness on two legs . |
| 5 | He also wanted us to be more severe in our handling of these offenders . |
| 6 | On this point , however , he did not follow her , for he clearly took her to be complaining of the endemic tediousness of all lectures , rather than of the inadequacy of this particular lot : he equally clearly did not wholly concede the point , for he said , faintly , falsely , without enthusiasm , " Oh yes , I suppose they were . |
| 7 | His defence was , therefore , that on the facts as he reasonably believed them to be , his use of force would not have been unlawful , and he was entitled to be acquitted according to the ordinary principles governing criminal liability . |
| 8 | He could not explain the bloodstains on his trousers , but he strongly suspected them to be rabbit 's blood . |
| 9 | And he actually expected her to be pleased to be let into his secret ! |
| 10 | Of course , he never meant them to be used like this . |