Example sentences of "he [vb past] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he lived to be a hundred , he 'd never get used to this evil oozing cold . |
| 2 | It may well have related to his envy of the nursing pair and the demand he experienced to be a good father . |
| 3 | This time , he agreed to be a candidate in the fullest sense of the term . |
| 4 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 5 | Apparently , Darwin , calling at the Society on what he expected to be a routine visit , was not equipped with paper . |
| 6 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 7 | For the time being , he ceased to be a cloistered academic and became once more the son of the police-court solicitor in Belfast , the city where the most popular political slogan at election times was ‘ Vote early , vote often ’ . |
| 8 | ( He ceased to be a member of the Institute on 3 September 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 9 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 10 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 11 | In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 12 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 13 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 14 | Yet his closest school-friend , that previous summer term , he found to be an agnostic . |
| 15 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
| 16 | Then he continued , a note of real warmth in his voice , ‘ My grandfather was born in Greece , in the slums of Athens , where he trained to be a tailor . |
| 17 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 18 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
| 19 | He pretended to be a qualified gynaecologist , although he had not passed the relevant professional exams . |
| 20 | he pretended to be a cuckoo-clock , |
| 21 | His actions and ideas were those of a young man with a clear perception of what he considered to be right and wrong , and a clear understanding of what he judged to be the sources of oppression in the world . |
| 22 | He is going to tell us how he came to be a Muslim . ’ |
| 23 | Bill had been a Beatles roadie and then became a manager , of The Mojos and Badfinger — which is how he came to be the owner of studios in Denmark Street . |
| 24 | Yes , I , I think it would be fair to say that , but you wondered how he came to be the kind of man that he , she found him . |
| 25 | So he studied to be a doctor , and went out to India . |
| 26 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 27 | Only Ashley House had given Dickinson no training problems , but , good chaser as he was , he seemed to be a little out of his depth here . |
| 28 | To her , at least , he seemed to be a part of the gaiety , having a wonderful time . |
| 29 | The romantic is attracted to Jesus because he seemed to be a great charmer who attracted others . |
| 30 | Even as a poisoner , not , you would have thought , the most demanding of professions , he seemed to be a complete failure . |