Example sentences of "[that] he was [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it plain , quite quickly , that he was poised to adore Anna . |
| 2 | Jezrael leant lower over him , straining to hear the words that he was straining to tell . |
| 3 | This was the period when the Alkali and Chemical Works Acts were being implemented and the chief alkali inspector , Angus Smith , persuaded Davis to join the team that he was forming to administer the Act . |
| 4 | Cathy had the impression that he was struggling to control extreme nervousness and his approach was absurdly tentative . |
| 5 | Historians have quarrelled about that since Thucydides and perhaps before ( for there is some reason to think that he was writing to correct what he saw as error , notably about the Megarian decree , for which see p. 91 ) . |
| 6 | Napoleon III therefore feared that he was bound to find himself involved in Spanish affairs even if he tried to ignore them . |
| 7 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 8 | When he was in his early 20s Richard Baxter felt so ill that he was expecting to die fairly soon . |
| 9 | She stared apprehensively into fitzAlan 's eyes , searching beneath the gleaming mockery for a sign that he was beginning to remember the events of the night . |
| 10 | He was weighed to ensure that he was beginning to regain some of the weight he lost pre-operatively . |
| 11 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 12 | To Clasper 's disgust , the majority had voted against his recommended call for strike action and he now sensed all too painfully that he was beginning to lose control of his members . |
| 13 | I felt that he was beginning to soften towards me . |
| 14 | She felt that he was beginning to smell a rat . |
| 15 | The blaze reminded him that he was beginning to feel cold . |
| 16 | He was not impressed by all the hocus-pocus with the Scapegoat nor by the gossip which linked Jordan with the dead man , but beyond all that he was beginning to feel — to sense that this was a sinister crime , an expression of hatred , long nurtured in secret until it could no longer be contained . |
| 17 | But it by no means establishes that he was beginning to question the stability of species . |
| 18 | It was that he was beginning to understand why Aziz the janitor and his friends might be convinced he was no ordinary child . |
| 19 | He was not actually dismissed from the service , though it was because of alcohol that he was asked to volunteer his own early resignation . |
| 20 | His progress was such that by 1783 he had so excelled that he was asked to teach the subject . |
| 21 | Bunyan did this with such fervour that he was asked to preach . |
| 22 | I mean , there was certainly an accident element in , in the , in the physical discovery of the manuscripts , but also it arose out of the historian asking questions , out of the interest that he was wanting to explore . |
| 23 | The conclusion is the same : provided the doctor can argue that he was seeking to prevent pain and suffering , the other criteria proposed by Skegg allow for a sufficient degree of subjective assessment as to offer no real barrier to the exercise of the doctor 's paternalism . |
| 24 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 25 | Willis was walking towards Dreadnought with the man from the boatyard , whose manner suggested that he was refusing to supply more tar , gas and water until the previous bill had been paid . |
| 26 | Fields claimed that he was refusing to pay on principle , because the tax was unjust ; Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , said that he had " absolutely no sympathy " with Fields , and that " law makers must not be law breakers " . |
| 27 | He was unusually well rewarded and this , coupled with the fact that he was employed to seize rebel lands , strongly suggests that he had been associated with Richard before 1483 . |
| 28 | He was unusually well rewarded and this , coupled with the fact that he was employed to seize rebel lands , strongly suggests that he had been associated with Richard before 1483 . |
| 29 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 30 | When this meeting broke up at about 8.15 I took Mr Murray aside to remind him that he was scheduled to broadcast from our CHAB studio on the top floor in 15 minutes . |