Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ moaned Rafiq . |
| 32 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ his congregation replied . |
| 33 | He was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in Pinar del Río Province to complete the remainder of his three-year sentence . |
| 34 | When John Colville , Churchill 's secretary , joined the RAF , he was sent to Witbank for flying training . ’ |
| 35 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 36 | He was sent to prison for life . |
| 37 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 38 | He was sent to prison on the Isle of Man . |
| 39 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 40 | He was sent to prison and , like every other conscientious objector in that war , was brought under very , very heavy moral pressure . |
| 41 | Once his mental instability was recognised , he was sent to hospital , but died of a heart attack in the ambulance . |
| 42 | After three visits to his doctor , he was sent to hospital for various check-ups . |
| 43 | As his condition deteriorated he was sent to hospital where he is now being treated on a kidney dialysis machine . |
| 44 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 45 | He was crushed to death when the roof fell in . |
| 46 | He was re-elected to Parliament in 1892 , as member for North Bedfordshire , and was appointed under-secretary for India and then , in 1894 , under-secretary in the home department . |
| 47 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 48 | He was rushed to Alder Hey Children 's Hospital where he was said today to be ‘ doing fine ’ . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | He was rushed to hospital with cerebral concussion and a smashed-up face . |
| 51 | Shortly after , he was rushed to hospital with suspected liver failure . |
| 52 | In 1991 , he was rushed to hospital by helicopter after collapsing while jogging . |
| 53 | ‘ Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital . ’ |
| 54 | As he was rushed to hospital , his devastated daughter Suzanne went ahead with the service — not knowing if he would live or die . |
| 55 | Although his sister was now gravely ill he had to return to London but , on the voyage back , he was again afflicted with tachycardia and when the ship docked at Southampton he was rushed to hospital in London ; while recovering there , he learned that his sister had died . |
| 56 | Five doctors said that his condition was now so serious that he would not last the night : he was rushed to hospital , paralysed on his left side and in a deep coma . |
| 57 | He was rushed to hospital the minute we docked . |
| 58 | Paul Ashmead got a pushover try in the second half … but Gloucester were far from happy with things … hooker John Hawker broke a bone in his neck during a scrum … he was rushed to hospital … he 's going to be OK but there 's no more rugby for him this season |
| 59 | He was rushed to hospital on the day of the crash with his wife Ethel and young granddaughter , both passengers in the car , was released later the same day after receiving three stitches to a head wound . |
| 60 | He was rushed to hospital but later died . |