Sentence examples for looked bound to fall from inspiring English sources

He won two stages in the 2011 Tour de France and managed a silver medal at the world road championships but was more often seen making the pace for Wiggins or Chris Froome as a domestique de luxe and never managed to win the major Classic that had looked bound to fall his way at some point.

He looked bound to score there.

He looked bound to do it, too.

Ricketts screwed a shot just wide from near the penalty spot after a clearance fell right to him, and then Altidore forced that brilliant full stretch save from Frei, as his looping header across goal looked bound to drop in.

If punk didn't topple Abba, then something closer to home looked bound to.

If the Democrats have looked bound to win Illinois, they have looked equally certain to lose Georgia.

It looks very effective, and it's bound to fall more heavily on young people.

And yet Republican candidates have been falling over themselves to invent tax proposals that look bound to squeeze the poor and reward the rich even more.

Or will it look like some ghastly opportunist arrangement that is bound to fall apart?

Willis finished eighth at London 2012, and looks bound to better this time around.

Interest-rate rises within a year are starting to look likely: with more pay devoted to mortgage repayments, consumption is bound to fall.