Example sentences of "what he [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 2 | The brothers turned and looked at Joe and presently Martin said on a laugh , ‘ That 's what he 's going to be , Harry , a romantic novelist . |
| 3 | The main man-child 's self-adoring ennui sticks in the craw once you realise that this is what he 's going to be doing on his death bed . ’ |
| 4 | " Well Joseph is n't too sure yet what he 's going to be . |
| 5 | What he 's going to be a drummer ? |
| 6 | He could fish with Mr Burkett — they had caught a fine pike and two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake — he could let go all those minaretted plans , those fantastical ambitions , and be what he was born to be , a jovial , lazy , loved and loving man , getting by . |
| 7 | When I spoke to Weir , now a sprightly 83 , he still remembered what he was going to be in for when he set sail for a country which had legendary names like Hobbs , Sutcliffe , Woolley , Hendren and many others floating around the various counties . |
| 8 | I asked him what he was going to be . |
| 9 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |