Example sentences of "[adv] he be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 2 | He was six one honestly he was to his mates , a right con and all this it was hanging over me and he 's a lorry driver . |
| 3 | Where now he was to be incarcerated as a hostage , a prisoner , an enemy . |
| 4 | Now he was to be particularly zealous in the interests of the king . |
| 5 | Word of his fuel-injected mouth was enough to secure a casting for Dance Energy in ‘ 89 , and originally he was to co-present the programme beside Prince 's former dancer , Cat . |
| 6 | Well he 's to is n't he ? |
| 7 | well he 's to weekends a little bit . |
| 8 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 9 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
| 10 | Francis Yuen , the controversial head of the Hong Kong stock exchange , announced his resignation on Sept. 6 with effect from Oct. 26 , when he was to be succeeded by Paul Chow . |
| 11 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 12 | It can accurately tell him where he is to the nearest ten metres or so . |
| 13 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 14 | I have not named the place where he is to be found , since I do not know it , and a week hence it may be very far from where he bides today . |
| 15 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 16 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |