Example sentences of "him [conj] he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |
| 6 | Even complete outsiders such as Pat Robertson , an evangelical minister with no security clearance , were asked by North to pray for him because he was going to Beirut to get the hostages out . |
| 7 | Bungling bosses at the NHS-run Forest Healthcare Trust , which controls seven north London hospitals , charged him after he was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital . |
| 8 | So it 's either at his flat or , more likely , he had it with him when he was blown to bits . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |