Example sentences of "[verb] he be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you know he was going to be here ? ’
2 So maybe he did n't know he was going to be photographed .
3 How was I to know he was going to be murdered ? ’
4 They say he 's going to be the next Director . ’
5 And the police say he was believed to be an associate of Keith Hanger .
6 Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides .
7 He says he 's thought to be carrying a pump action shotgun and may now be a traveeling criminal .
8 Ernest says he 's going to be a leader of men ! ’
9 The gloomy Scotsman , of Menlove Avenue , Calderstones , Liverpool , says he was doomed to be depressed from the day he was born … 67 years ago .
10 If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed .
11 I noticed on your card she called him Daniel David and then behold he 's going to be just Daniel .
12 So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here .
13 That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was .
14 I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me .
15 I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it .
16 Later when the prices soared he was said to be furious .
17 I mean I know he 's going to be out sometime this afternoon , so I think any time after about six o'clock
18 She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed .
19 And when I discovered he was going to be a priest .
20 Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home .
21 ‘ He suffered a stroke , but I believe he is said to be recovering . ’
22 He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself .
23 The fact that Chant , knowing he was going to be murdered ( that much was cogent ) , should have chosen to set these nonsenses down as vital information was proof of significant derangement .
24 He imagines he is going to be arrested and whisked off to Siberia .
25 He was only a couple of years older than Jack but he was huge — almost as wide as he was tall — and although Jack had never had much to do with him he knew he was reputed to be a bully .
26 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
27 Farrell knew he was going to be sick .
28 Derek felt taken aback , as he knew he was meant to be , by this sudden revelation .
29 At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket .
30 For one terrible moment he thought he was going to be dismissed .
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