Example sentences of "he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 2 | She begins her descripton of his plans in London English : " ( 'e was going ) to Jamaica , 'e was going to — " . |
| 3 | He was further informed that the main charge against him was amended to what in reality was a new charge . |
| 4 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 5 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 6 | Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him . |
| 7 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 8 | The Adjutant and Charles had suffered together the Colonel 's frequent fits of bad temper in earlier weeks , so a little hasty advice about humouring him was offered to Charles on his way to the CO 's office . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 10 | ‘ My interest in him was confined to his seamanship . |
| 11 | Now , at seventeen , he was bowing to Mrs Cohen 's wish and had entered University College to study medicine . |
| 12 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 13 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 14 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 15 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 16 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 17 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 18 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 19 | Soon after John 's return from leave he was moved to Eastbourne . |
| 20 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 21 | Richard knew he was related to Tory somehow , but was not sure if cousin was quite the right word . |
| 22 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 23 | " He never said that he was related to your wife . |
| 24 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 25 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 26 | Although Gregory insisted that he was related to thirteen of his predecessors in the see , his family was most obviously connected with Burgundy and the Auvergne , and a local priest , Riculf , saw him as an outsider . |
| 27 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 29 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 30 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |