Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're the new united German diplomatic corps , the answer 's obvious — send him off to be ambassador to Austria . |
| 2 | Celtic want him back to be their new manager … that could be the future … but what of the past dare we mention Swindon … |
| 3 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 4 | Malcolm told him not to be so stupid . |
| 5 | North told him not to be downhearted , ‘ that the one bright spot is that the government is availing itself of part of the money for application to Central America . ’ |
| 6 | I told him not to be silly and then he stabbed me . |
| 7 | Anyway , Fiona told him not to be so bolshie , they 'll come about twoish and do n't forget you promised to give her your recipe for clafoutis . ’ |
| 8 | Everett told him not to be so ridiculous , grabbed the cheque and ran . |
| 9 | Seeing the shock she had caused , she then told him not to be so rattled . |
| 10 | ‘ Connor said he would climb out and I told him not to be stupid , ’ she said . |
| 11 | She told him not to be so possessive about her and her body . |
| 12 | In Ashton 's version , as in the Russian staged version , the Tutor 's encounter with Katia , the servant girl , allows him momentarily to be back home amongst his master 's peasants . |
| 13 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 14 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 15 | ‘ I told 'im not to be so silly , or e 'd strain 'imself , and oo 'd 'ave to look after 'im then , I 'd like to know ? … |
| 16 | Else told 'im not to be disgustin' , and now every night there 's a terrible row before they go to bed — our bedroom 's right underneath theirs — and Else says she wo n't sleep in the same bed with 'im until 'e washes 'imself . ’ |
| 17 | He knew what blow had knocked proud Lucifer , the first angel , out of the sky and hurtled him down to be the founder of Hell . |
| 18 | Mister Tom had told him not to be afraid of the earth , but it was still wet from the previous night 's rain and occasionally he let out an involuntary squeal when his spade contacted a worm . |
| 19 | He 'd once used almost those exact words , and she seemed to recall that she 'd told him not to be so crude . |
| 20 | Andrew confided in me that if the officer had asked his permission to play the pipes on this occasion , he would have told him not to be such a fool . |
| 21 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |
| 22 | " Then tell him not to be a fool , for God 's sake . |
| 23 | Finally he delivers him off to be crucified , and he takes that bowl of water and washes his hands thinking he 's absolved from guilt , but you do n't get rid of Jesus that easily . |
| 24 | Set him up to be a laughing-stock . |
| 25 | Something about his secretive cousin , however ; the warmth of Mary Ann 's welcome ; and the recent tragedy with its peculiar symbol , tempted him not to be hasty . |
| 26 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 27 | Few of the friends who had written complimentary tributes to Smart at the time of his release from Dr Battie 's asylum expected him ever to be able to write again . |
| 28 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 29 | Edward was glad to escape from Shelgate Road : his father seemed to undermine his self-confidence and made him out to be ‘ several kinds of fool ’ . |
| 30 | Martin Potter 's press photos made him out to be a cross between James Dean and Marlon Brando . |