Example sentences of "he is [vb pp] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sympathy of all who knew him is extended to his wife Jean . |
| 2 | ‘ He is lost to you ; he is utterly bewitched ! |
| 3 | It stars Victoria Abril as a sexy young widow who rents a room to Paco ( Jorge Sanz ) and despite the fact he is engaged to his virginal girlfriend , he is more than happy to be seduced by his landlady . |
| 4 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 5 | Edwards ' racism towards Indians is inexcusable , but he is tied to his feelings for his abducted niece . |
| 6 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 7 | A bachelor who is quiet , modest and with a slight stammer , he is wedded to his sport and more particularly to his art , which is the coaching of sprinters . |
| 8 | Sometime in the future , he is chained to his computer and surrounded by his young captors . |
| 9 | He has command , but he is closed to everything which is not exclusively pertaining to military order . |
| 10 | You know he is known to everybody — ‘ As a rogue . ’ |
| 11 | But ‘ Mr Donald ’ , as he is known to his staff , has inherited the top spot from his father Christopher at a particularly lean time in the lift business . |
| 12 | Perhaps he might be interested to know that , for reasons too complicated to explain here , he is known to his comrades in the People 's Party as ‘ Lowenbrau ’ . |
| 13 | But because of his deteriorating health , he is unable to keep any of these jobs long , and throughout much of the novel he is confined to his shack where his wife cares for him . |
| 14 | In his mind he is attracted to his own glamorisation of death . |
| 15 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 16 | And therefore he is forbidden to you by every rule , natural or manmade . |