Example sentences of "but he [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ' racism towards Indians is inexcusable , but he is tied to his feelings for his abducted niece . |
| 2 | He has command , but he is closed to everything which is not exclusively pertaining to military order . |
| 3 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 4 | Police have yet to name the dead man but he is thought to be from the Grangetown area . |
| 5 | I suspect he 's happier in sports cars , but he 's determined to be a country gent ! ’ |
| 6 | Like most boys he 's full of sin but he 's promised to be good . |
| 7 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 8 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 9 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 10 | Innocent also had an " acting chancellor " in his second pontifical year , from 1199 to 1200 , Rainald , a papal notary , but he was sent to be archbishop of Acerenza . |
| 11 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 12 | But he was used to people not liking him or his company and so took their attitude as expected . |
| 13 | Nothing is known of his education , but he was returned to the Parliament of 1539 for an unknown constituency , possibly at a by-election during the shrievalty of his father , himself a knight of the shire for Surrey . |
| 14 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 15 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 16 | He went out into the sea , but he was drawn to human beings . |
| 17 | But he was forced to one side as they bundled their way in . ’ |