Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course he was returned to normal health , except that the acids had removed all the pigmentation from his exposed skin . |
| 2 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 3 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 4 | This man he was spoken to the night afore and another one . |
| 5 | In recognition of Dicke 's outstanding clinical and scientific capacities he was appointed to the Chair of Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utrecht and he became Medical Director of the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in 1957 . |
| 6 | Merton 's early Edinburgh appearances read as a catalogue of disasters : one year he was set upon by a gang of burly Scottish lads when seeking to compete in the poster wars engulfing the festival , and another year he was rushed to hospital after only one show , having broken a leg in an intercomedian football friendly . |
| 7 | This time he was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital where he continued to be an outpatient for three years . |
| 8 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |
| 9 | In early February he was transferred to Pinar del Río Provincial Prison after agreeing to give up his protest and end his hunger-strike . |
| 10 | The following day he was taken to Pristina prison to serve his sentence and was reportedly found dead in a prison cell two hours later . |
| 11 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 12 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 13 | Despite a statement by Marina that she poisoned Ann Bacon , Thomas was found guilty , but as there was no absolute proof he was sentenced to imprisonment for life . |
| 14 | Take Boris Yeltsin 's description of the official dacha he was treated to on joining the Soviet politburo in 1985 : |
| 15 | Later that evening he was taken to hospital , vomiting uncontrollably . |
| 16 | After 9 months of continued treatment he was referred to our institution , at which time his CD4 cell count was 740/L , his CMV serology ( IgG+IgM ) was positive ( titre 256 ) , and his HIV seropositivity was confirmed . |
| 17 | Later that morning he was flown to the South West and shown a beautiful industrial site with excellent access to the adjacent port facilities . |
| 18 | On 6 March he was transferred to the prison infirmary suffering from skin problems and a dramatic fall in his blood sugar level resulting from the earlier hunger-strike . |
| 19 | On 3 April he was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £1,500 compensation . |
| 20 | One evening he was summoned to the bedside of a dying lawyer , who had first robbed and then seduced a female client . |
| 21 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 22 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 23 | Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | That same year he was appointed to ‘ the place and quality of Geographer in Ordinary to his Majesty ’ . |
| 26 | After several warnings he was called to the front of the class , told to hold out his hand and caned by Miss Smith with the flat of a foot ruler . |
| 27 | On several occasions he was driven to the point of resignation . |
| 28 | In July that year he was raised to the peerage . |
| 29 | Former political prisoner Farouk Okullu told an Old Bailey judge he lashed out in desperation because his private parts were extremely sensitive following agonising torture he was subjected to in a Ugandan jail . |
| 30 | Within two weeks he was transferred to Hong Kong without an explanation . |