Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every fish he got seemed to be a good 'un . |
| 2 | For as long as he can remember , he has yearned to be — wait for it — a rock star . |
| 3 | These days he has decided to be the sort of man who does not hit people . |
| 4 | I do n't know what he has to do to be able to get a proper chance . |
| 5 | Now , in a way , he has asked to be rewarded . |
| 6 | Although he was not the very first , he has come to be regarded as the pioneer , bush-whacking anthropologist , the originator of the doctrine that until you have lived cheek by jowl with an exotic tribe and spoken their language fluently you can not claim full professional status . |
| 7 | He has come to be quite a feature in the pub . ’ |
| 8 | So far he has proved to be no stern ayatollah . |
| 9 | He has proved to be an excellent literary scholar . |
| 10 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 11 | If the servant does not act bona fide , presumably he is liable on the ground that he has ceased to be his employer 's alter ego . |
| 12 | It is to be noted that even in the case of a fiduciary the ambit of his duty once he has ceased to be for example , a director , is circumscribed . |
| 13 | Even if he has refused to be a market counterparty in relation to some investments , he can still be a market counterparty in relation to other qualifying investments ; and ( 3 ) The firm has warned him in its notice that he will not have the benefit of protections afforded to customers . |
| 14 | And he has attempted to be equally frank in fashioning the NES , a task that has been spread over 18 months and umpteen public hearings . |
| 15 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 16 | Until now , he has had to be with his father 100 per cent of the time . |
| 17 | She said apologetically " Well , he has had to be careful so long , watching every tiny little thing he does , I suppose … " |
| 18 | ‘ He is a good man , mademoiselle — all the world would tell you so — but he has had to be strong — to bear everything on his shoulders . |
| 19 | He has had to be able to turn his hand to almost anything . |
| 20 | And I , I , I think obviously everything that he says has to be taken with a pinch of salt , but we 'll , we 'll come on to that |
| 21 | He 'd prayed to be released |
| 22 | Florrie Tremayne went on regardless : ‘ And poor old Alfred with his shop ; he 'd wanted to be a doctor , a GP , plodding along in some backwater for forty years , supported by a sufficient number of loyal patients who hung on his words and swallowed his medicines with no fuss . |
| 23 | Dozing on the plane he felt the smoothness of the assassin 's face in his fingertips , the tumble of hair he 'd taken to be Jude 's over the back of his hands . |
| 24 | The difficulty was , he 'd chosen to be charming so very , very often . |
| 25 | what he can say that he 'd go with her but he 'd had to be back , sort of , by four cos he 's going out with you he says that , that 'll get him out of it then wo n't he ? |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he 'd reformed to be a daddy . |
| 27 | His desire to be gone had been so strong — the desire for movement — that he 'd seemed to be leaning into the wind . |
| 28 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 29 | He 'd learned to be very tidy when he was in prison . |
| 30 | He seemed born to be a professor . |