Example sentences of "the [noun] he [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 2 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 3 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 4 | A miner had no fear of the dark he was used to underground but the permanent blackness was disconcerting . |
| 5 | For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines . |
| 6 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 7 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 8 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 9 | By the time he had reached the shelter of the station he was soaked to the skin . |
| 10 | Pallister recalled the day he was switched to defence for Blakeston School . |
| 11 | His heart was not strong either , and by the end of the month he was confined to his bed . |
| 12 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 13 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 14 | Though never honoured by the government he was elected to several learned societies , including the Royal Irish Academy , the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and the Société de Géographie de Paris . |
| 15 | After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926 . |
| 16 | But because of his deteriorating health , he is unable to keep any of these jobs long , and throughout much of the novel he is confined to his shack where his wife cares for him . |
| 17 | The people at the farm he was hired to were very sympathetic but he still had all his work to do before he could get away . |
| 18 | He was a good deal younger than Mary Adelaide Flock , and probably a lot younger still than the late Ted Mosse , but a limp suggested rheumatism and the reason he was known to the chemist . |
| 19 | As he toured the Colony he was introduced to mayors , civic leaders and clergymen , men ‘ with an outlook , who had escaped the ruts of tradition ’ . |
| 20 | Like all members of the aristocracy he was addicted to hunting and liked nothing better than to be in the saddle and away before the crack of dawn . |
| 21 | As director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven until 1987 ( the year he was appointed to the Gemeentemuseum ) , he left behind a sizeable financial deficit , caused by overspending on buying modern art and on travel expenses . |
| 22 | I only look towards someone like Dylan because I see the things that have happened in his career and the conclusions he 's come to and the way he 's responded to outside forces , the audience , the press … and I recognize a similarity to how I feel in my career . |
| 23 | He was tied to her and to Mr Malik in exactly the way he was tied to his own parents . |
| 24 | As French starts his jail sentence , he 's left to reflect on the misery he 's caused to hundreds of animals . |
| 25 | The Chairman of the company told him he was most impressed with the contribution he 's made to the business , and that he could go right to the top if he keeps it up . |
| 26 | It stars Victoria Abril as a sexy young widow who rents a room to Paco ( Jorge Sanz ) and despite the fact he is engaged to his virginal girlfriend , he is more than happy to be seduced by his landlady . |