Example sentences of "he be not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 32 | She had always insisted that he was n't to meet her , that she might come any time . |
| 33 | He was n't to worry about her . |
| 34 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 35 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 36 | I left instructions he was not to go home on his own . |
| 37 | Little did the young policeman know that he was not to see either of his colleagues alive again . |
| 38 | In November 1252 , for example , the king told him both to seek timber for the new roof of the abbey and to see that a great new bell was hung before the feast of St Edward : he was not to leave London until it was done . |
| 39 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 40 | I sent him into the ballroom , with instructions that he was not to return without you . ’ |
| 41 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 42 | November of that year , a son was born to Queen Victoria , named Edward , but he was not to become King until the beginning of the next century . |
| 43 | He may have been West Midlands Chief Constable when it 's squad was exposed for its creative-writing skills , but he was not to blame . |
| 44 | He was not to blame for their deaths . |
| 45 | He was not to blame ; yet he felt their deaths quite heavily . |
| 46 | He 'd pulled out in front of Gooch 's speeding car but was told he was not to blame for what followed . |
| 47 | He was not to make another attempt , later tragically falling to his death from nearby Cousin 's Buttress . |
| 48 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 49 | He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand . |
| 50 | He was not to know . ’ |
| 51 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |
| 52 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 53 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |
| 54 | He was not to ring the bell , just drop the envelope through the letter-box , then return to Heathrow airport and Houston . |
| 55 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 56 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 57 | He was not to fly operationally on Malta again however , for on release from hospital in March , he was despatched to Middle East Headquarters in Cairo . |
| 58 | He returned to Basle in April to find the hopes he had left there come to nothing : he was not to have a philosophy chair ( nor Rohde his own chair ) , and so he was obliged to remain , at least nominally , a philologist . |
| 59 | But then he would have had to have been more obtuse than he was not to have known already . |