Example sentences of "[verb] he [is] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he 's thought to be carrying a pump action shotgun and may now be a traveeling criminal . |
| 2 | He says he 's resigned to it coming . |
| 3 | The rapid rise may suggest he is wedded to the bank . |
| 4 | You know he is known to everybody — ‘ As a rogue . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose he 's written to his firm telling them not to keep his job open for him ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He suffered a stroke , but I believe he is said to be recovering . ’ |
| 7 | When he speaks he is listened to with well-earned respect , particularly in these preparatory years before the 1992 UN conference on the environment which will mark the culmination of his career . |
| 8 | I think he 's spoken to you about me , and I 'm sorry he considers me to be unreliable : happy-go-lucky was how he described me , I imagine . |
| 9 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 10 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |