Example sentences of "he [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | suffered nervous depressions , although , happily , he lived to be 85 . |
| 2 | If he lived to be a hundred , he 'd never get used to this evil oozing cold . |
| 3 | So over-blessed a nature must bring a man either to a throne or a grave before ever he lived to be old . |
| 4 | Even if he lived to be ten . |
| 5 | He schemed to be proclaimed Emperor , but as long as Menelik was known to be alive this was impossible . |
| 6 | He chanced to be on the Eddystone on the night of 26th November , 1703 , when the Great Storm , as recorded by Defoe , possibly the worst ever to lash this country , struck the South coast . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems he chanced to be staying in Vienna also , and read of the disappearance in the local paper . |
| 8 | It may well have related to his envy of the nursing pair and the demand he experienced to be a good father . |
| 9 | He agreed to be admitted to a psychiatric unit where , after 2 months ' treatment with psychotherapy and antidepressants , he appeared to improve considerably . |
| 10 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 11 | He agreed to be on site for the first weekend , while Dave would be present during the week and for the second weekend . |
| 12 | This time , he agreed to be a candidate in the fullest sense of the term . |
| 13 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 14 | At first he agreed to be interviewed but then changed his mind . |
| 15 | Urgently he requested to be reinforced by at least two companies . |
| 16 | Noverre 's second category comprised those dancers whom he expected to be technical perfectionists . |
| 17 | His stance was apologetic , almost cringing as if he expected to be dealt a blow . |
| 18 | He expected to be sacked . |
| 19 | He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength . |
| 20 | Nor did he introduce himself to Ellen or Thessy , but instead looked warily up into the rigging as though he expected to be ambushed from the foremast 's crosstrees . |
| 21 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 22 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 23 | He expected to be exhausted later in an investigation when he would be working a sixteen-hour day , but this early heaviness , the feeling that he was already spent in mind and body was new to him . |
| 24 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 25 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 26 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 27 | He expected to be killed . |
| 28 | Did your husband , on his return to this country , where he expected to be reunited with his wife and family , like the houseboat Grace very much ? " |
| 29 | He acted as though he was very important , as though he expected to be treated differently from — better than — anyone else . |
| 30 | Apparently , Darwin , calling at the Society on what he expected to be a routine visit , was not equipped with paper . |