Example sentences of "and he [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 2 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 3 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 4 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 5 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 6 | and he was getting to be an old man and he had actually stopped and then father would take er would be asked to do the undertaking in that part . |
| 7 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 8 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 9 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 10 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 11 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |
| 12 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 13 | He signed for Liverpool when he was sixteen years old , and he was going to be a footballer . |
| 14 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 15 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |