Example sentences of "[adv] he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before Ronni could wonder further , suddenly he was rising to his feet . |
| 2 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 3 | Apparently he was talking to someone called Helen , and used the words , ‘ You 've got to say I was with you ’ . ' |
| 4 | I hope it will la apparently he was talking to Kathy , no , yeah , I always get , I always think Kathy and Jenny should be the other way round no |
| 5 | Perhaps he was trying to be hospitable — not an easy task for him when she was the guest ! |
| 6 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 7 | Well , perhaps he was forced to at school , but not since . |
| 8 | Naturally enough he was subjected to the influence and sales-talk of courtiers and patrons ; but this is a hazard faced by anyone with the power of appointment . |
| 9 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 10 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 11 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 12 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |
| 13 | Soon he was responding to her love-play , softly moaning , his arms tightening about her and his nakedness fusing harder with hers . |
| 14 | Because Lee went to Garth House his Mum took objection to him , and anyway he was moving to Thirkett , was n't he ? |
| 15 | Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district . |
| 16 | After a couple of days in hospital outside he was transferred to the prison hospital . |
| 17 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 18 | Technically he was meant to be in bed . |
| 19 | Mr McFall said yesterday he was writing to the health board demanding a thorough inquiry . |
| 20 | The more de Gaulle insisted that his was not a party and that he was appealing to all patriotic men and women of every class , the more he was conforming to stereotypes of right-wing authoritarianism . |
| 21 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 22 | That 's correct sir , P C was behind the shield like he was told to be . |
| 23 | A few weeks later he was transferred to Newcastle United for a fee of £90,000 , becoming the first player to be signed up by soccer legend Keegan as new manager of the First Division club . |
| 24 | Three days later he was confiding to his diary that the night bombardment made him ‘ think of that nightmare room of Edgar Allan Poe , in which the walls closed in one after the other . ’ |
| 25 | Two months later he was appointed to the recently built Selimiye ( Selim II ) medrese in Edirne , the newest and perhaps at least temporarily the most important of the imperial medreses , from which he nevertheless resigned after only two months , unwilling to accept , in Ata'i 's words , by which he means , presumably , the transfer to Edirne . |
| 26 | Moments later he was chatting to the C.P.R. Divisional Superintendent , Tom Warner , thanking him for his obviously favourable comments on the broadcast , and he went on , ‘ But seriously , Tom , I want a favour . |
| 27 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 28 | A minute or two later he was speaking to a suave gentleman anxious to steer a safe course between Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 29 | Later he was sent to a concentration camp in Germany , where he underwent a lot of suffering and privation , and died on his return to Italy after the war was over . |
| 30 | A year later he was deported to Turkey for his public condemnation of the Shah 's agreement to grant diplomatic immunity to American military advisers and their support staff . |