Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 2 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 3 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 4 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 5 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 6 | There will be a bright little man at Camp 3 , very clever and on the up , and your Michael Holly is going to be his pride and joy , and when he can wheel your man into that press conference he 's going to be very smug . |
| 7 | They range from the lone back-packer who stuffs a volume of Descartes into the pocket of her shorts and forgets to take spare socks , to the package holiday-maker who packs a change of silk shirt for every evening he is going to be away . |
| 8 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 9 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |
| 10 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 11 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 12 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 13 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 14 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 15 | Last night he was waiting to be quizzed by police . |
| 16 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |
| 17 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 18 | At the age of nine Fred was already very much like the man he was going to be at thirty-five or forty . |
| 19 | He concealed his boredom through the first act , but by intermission he was itching to be away to claim his prize . |
| 20 | The powerbrokers of the resource industries in the mountain west thought he was going to be their president ; but so did the environmentalists who loathe them . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't call too soon , in case he 's intending to be fashionably late . |
| 22 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 23 | Wesley will be telling England rugby star Will Carling today that after he 's done his PhD he 's going to be a top consultant on ecological waste disposal . |
| 24 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 25 | At present he is stated to be ‘ a senior government official in the research and development area of the Department of Energy in Washington DC ’ ( from bookjacket ) . |
| 26 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 27 | The England football captain has appeared on Simon 's show and it was after reading out the press report announcing that Gary 's wife Michelle is going to have a baby , that Simon told the world he was going to be a dad , too . |
| 28 | Erm the only way he is going to be able to do that is when his dead . |
| 29 | Do we really need him now , there 's no way he 's going to be as good as he used to be , and he 's probably the size of Mick Quinn now anyway : - ) |
| 30 | He had done all he could , but the boy was gone — could n't say he blamed him — and if the Irish Republican Brotherhood were sheltering him , then there was no way he was going to be able to make contact with him . |