Example sentences of "he had be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been born to money , power , and good looks ; with a combination like that at his command , why would he hesitate about anything ? |
| 2 | He had been invited to dinner by Jenny . |
| 3 | An exile in Senegal and France since 1983 , he had been condemned to death ( later changed to life imprisonment ) in his absence in 1984 for allegedly plotting against his successor , Paul Biya . |
| 4 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 5 | He had been sentenced to death in March by a Palestinian military tribunal sitting in Sana'a , Yemen . |
| 6 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 7 | From the beginning he had been determined to bed her . |
| 8 | He had been promoted to sergeant and sometimes spoke very masterfully to Anne , until she reminded him , half in fun and half in earnest , that she was not one of his soldiers . |
| 9 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 10 | He had been driven to bitterness through pain , but I did n't see that then . |
| 11 | He had been driven to distraction when the five-month-old girl would not settle and struck her , causing extensive bruising , the Court of Session heard . |
| 12 | On the same evening he had been admitted to hospital with heart trouble , but although his condition was reported to be good the next day , he did not withdraw his candidacy . |
| 13 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 14 | After he had been taken to hospital by ambulance the judge , Lord Morison , adjourned the trial until Monday . |
| 15 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 16 | His death two days later in a Hebron prison provoked Palestinian , Arab and international accusations that he had been tortured to death . |
| 17 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 18 | Instead , he complained , he had been brought to court , fined , whipped and sentenced to two months imprisonment . |
| 19 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 20 | The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison . |