Example sentences of "him to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 2 | The Ethiopian book , published in Britain in 1983 , showed him to be a writer interested in ‘ autocrats ’ — in absolute power and in the transformation of that power into its indistinguishable opposite . |
| 3 | It will be difficult for him to be baleful about the Millennium . |
| 4 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 5 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 6 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 7 | She loses her wings and dies , leaving him to be cursed by Madge . |
| 8 | Yet Binyon knew the unformulated rules of the society that he moved in , and played the game consistently as the amateur that that society required him to be . |
| 9 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 10 | Just as importantly , he is possessed of a generosity of mind which allows him to be calmly judicious about the merits of writers who can advocate militant homosexuality and drug-taking ( such as Thom Gunn ) , sympathise with feminism ( Elaine Feinstein ) or adhere to some variant of Marxism ( Hugh MacDiarmid ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a real bonus after I fully expected him to be unavailable for the Poland match . |
| 12 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 13 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 14 | He still has many supporters , though , among the Western press , who considered him to be one of the few UN bureaucrats with a habit of telling the truth . |
| 15 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 16 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 17 | Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year . |
| 18 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 19 | Ramsey thought this an injustice ; he decided that his bishop was vague and naïve in his theology , someone who took up new ideas with enthusiasm and with very little precision of thought ; and yet he saw that the bishop disliked controversy and was hurt by it , and thought him to be a friend and a man of prayer . |
| 20 | It was important to Michael Ramsey , not only then but much later , that before Frank 's death he felt him to be less far apart over religion . |
| 21 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 22 | She was sent to him to be prepared for confirmation . |
| 23 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 24 | Emerson 's essay on ‘ history ’ begins , ‘ There is one mind common to all individual men ’ , whereas Eliot 's anthropological reading had taught him to be wary of the nineteenth-century assumption of what was ‘ in the words of M. Lévy-Bruhl , the uniformity of mind ’ . |
| 25 | Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ . |
| 26 | Soon she was leaving and it was easy for him to be charming . |
| 27 | Imagining him to be a reporter , Lionel said to him brusquely , ‘ I have nothing to say to you . ’ |
| 28 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 29 | The group 's publicity suggests that the issue being dealt with is mental illness , which led a therapist in the audience to say that none of the characters seemed to him to be mentally ill . |
| 30 | WHEN a man applies to come to the United Kingdom to marry a woman settled here , it is not necessary for him to be able to state specifically whether he intends to settle in this country forever or whether he wishes to marry and return to his own country . |