Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has frequently been compared to Morse and Wexford for detailed atmosphere and strong characterisation . |
| 2 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 3 | His friends have confirmed that , unlike other Hollywood stars ( Michael Douglas , Warren Beatty ) , he has never been drawn to backstage machinations , has never been obsessed with the art of the deal . |
| 4 | It was as if he 'd known — as if he 'd somehow been alerted to the fact that she was about to cave in , to spill the beans on their bogus relationship . |
| 5 | He 'd never been used to them . |
| 6 | There was much speculation as to whether US President Bush would attend : the fact that he did so was attributed to the persistence of William Reilly , the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 7 | It was rumoured that he had even been asked to Sandringham with his sketchbook , some time this coming autumn . |
| 8 | ( But there was always the sudden stab at his heart when he reasoned thus , because he had not been born to it ! ) |
| 9 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 10 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 11 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 12 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 13 | He had already been converted to the new faith , and had , with the Edict of Milan in 313 , granted equal status to Christianity . |
| 14 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 15 | With all the RAF stations in England for him to be sent to , he had actually been sent to Bourn and was there for a couple of months . |
| 16 | He had actually been denounced to J. Edgar Hoover as ‘ more probably than not an agent of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 17 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 18 | He had always been drawn to the sea , as is also evinced by his poems ; at Taranto he became a keen yachtsman . |
| 19 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |
| 20 | Mr Shaw said he had never been spoken to in such a manner by another lawyer . |
| 21 | He was a bullet-headed child whose shaven hair showed that he had recently been sent to the cleansing station as verminous . |
| 22 | He had then been returned to the dull monotony of rural country life in his native Gloucestershire . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's probably been promoted to a key ring by this time . ’ |
| 24 | Well the point Chairman is that Mr moves the Conservative he 's now been allowed to er speak again . |