Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several illuminating aspects of the Brown experience : the early promise of educational attainment ; the not unreasonable anticipation of good qualifications ; the gradual intensification of involvement with sport ; and , crucially , the persuasive parts played by teachers and , to a slightly lesser extent coaches , in fostering an interest in sport , which he admitted was detrimental to his education . |
| 2 | Although his analysis is principally philosophical and occasionally historical the concepts and theoretical relations between them that he develops are relevant to understanding specific instances of ideology . |
| 3 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 4 | He has been polite to Paul all along . |
| 5 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 6 | Despite Finn 's hundreds of dollars , he still likes to wear old , tatty clothes + lead the rough life he has been used to . |
| 7 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 8 | Again , he has been prepared to be physical when the necessity arose while his choice of options has been admirable for one so short of international experience . |
| 9 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 10 | He 'd been happy to be a spectator while she fucked him , but suddenly he reached up , and pulled her down on to him . |
| 11 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 12 | He was especially troubled by pain in his kidneys , which he believed was due to kidney stones ‘ occasioned by unsuitable diet in my youth ’ . |
| 13 | This he claimed was due to the way in which the modular certificates are gained . |
| 14 | Sometimes Shadwell came in to watch the show , and one day he started being nice to me . |
| 15 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 16 | What he saw was incredible to him : imperfect stones , yes , flawed , sometimes of poor coloration , but cut and set with such skill and ingenuity that their imperfections were disguised . |
| 17 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 18 | The Académie Française on this count he notes is similar to ( Weber 's bureaucratic ) church . |
| 19 | His strategy changed with bewildering suddenness , but everything he did was devoted to the same end , that was certain . |
| 20 | The right ankle which he damaged was supposed to be his good ankle . |
| 21 | The new men whom he introduced were central to Lanfranc 's plans . |
| 22 | In a statement on July 31 the IRA said that Gow had been killed because he had been central to the formulation of British government policy decisions on Northern Ireland , including those during the hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the " shoot-to-kill " operations of 1982 , and had remained a close confidant of the Prime Minister until his death . |
| 23 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 24 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
| 25 | Surely God would remember he had been loyal to his king ? |
| 26 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 27 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 28 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 29 | Women he had been close to . ’ |
| 30 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |