Example sentences of "he [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 2 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |
| 3 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 4 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 5 | He 's been sent north to Northumbria to join his uncle Siward . ’ |