Example sentences of "he was promoted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was promoted to deputy chairman of the Plastics Division in 1966 he remained in charge of the film group . |
| 2 | He was promoted to Minister of State at Transport , then went to Environment , where he was charged with burying the poll tax and devising its successor with Michael Heseltine . |
| 3 | Earl Douglas Haig , a Lt. General , was put in charge of the British Expeditionary Force that went to France , and he was promoted to Field Marshall . |
| 4 | He was promoted to the rank of Captain and a desk at the Admiralty offices in Whitehall , which meant an end to the family 's wanderings and a large apartment in a turreted neo-gothic building overlooking the Thames in London 's legal district . |
| 5 | He was promoted to Jig and Tool Assistant . |
| 6 | But in later years , as he was promoted to more senior posts , he found that he had to travel more and more to oversee fund-raising projects . |
| 7 | In 1806 , he was promoted to Captain . |
| 8 | McGiven 's first two years with Town were as first team coach but in the summer , at Lyall 's suggestion , he was promoted to team manager . |
| 9 | He qualified in February , 1935 whereupon he was promoted to Sergeant . |
| 10 | He was promoted to the post of Assistant Director in April of this year . |
| 11 | He was promoted to director in 1984 . |
| 12 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 13 | He was promoted to be President of the Board of Trade and joined the Lloyd George Coalition Cabinet . |
| 14 | In 1813 , however , he succeeded James Wyatt as architect to the Middlesex Hospital , holding the post until 1829 , and he also made some further progress in the Office of Works : in 1818 he was promoted to the clerkship of the works for the eastern division , transferring in 1829 to Hampton Court , but he then lost his position in the reorganization of the office in 1832 . |
| 15 | Probably under Archbishop Edmund [ q.v. ] he was promoted to the Canterbury peculiar of Harrow , the chancel of whose church he was repairing in 1242 . |
| 16 | In 1857 he was promoted to locomotive superintendent of the northern division , covering all routes of the LNWR north of Rugby , at Crewe works where in the following year the first of almost 1,000 of his 0–6–0 type freight locomotives were built . |
| 17 | He was promoted to be Leopold 's private secretary and in 1831 , when his master became king of the Belgians , a Bavarian baron . |
| 18 | Rejoining the fleet , he was promoted to commander but was soon paid off . |
| 19 | Six years later he was promoted to the Gregynog chair of Welsh literature , from which he retired in 1937 . |
| 20 | After acting as surveyor of the Works in 1666 , during Denham 's illness , he was promoted to the comptrollership in June 1668 . |
| 21 | In 1946 he was promoted to senior principal scientific officer and became assistant director of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment , subsequently becoming director . |
| 22 | After serving as a commissioner of trade between 1668 and 1669 , he was appointed assistant secretary of the council of foreign plantations in 1670 , and in September 1672 he was promoted to the post of secretary and treasurer of the council of trade and foreign plantations , under the presidency of his patron , Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1930 and brigadier in 1933 , and he was knighted in 1937 . |
| 24 | Indeed , he was promoted to the Cabinet for his total commitment to that hated and unjust tax in Wales . |
| 25 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 26 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 27 | He was a detective sergeant from 1975 to 1982 when he was promoted to the rank of inspector . |
| 28 | At the end of August 1914 he was promoted to Brigadier on the field ; so suddenly that an elderly spinster had to furnish him with stars unsewn from her father 's uniform . |
| 29 | He was promoted to secretary in 1968 becoming deputy director general in 1974 . |