Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was chaplain to Waikune Prison during his time in the Maori pastorates , and welfare officer to the Fire Service in Wellington during his retirement . |
| 2 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 3 | ‘ His name is Hung Mien-lo and he was Chancellor to Wang Ta-hung before his recent death . ’ |
| 4 | Little point in saying he was godfather to one of them . |
| 5 | He was godfather to a child born in a Bakerloo Line train and gave her a silver christening mug when she was named Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor . |
| 6 | He was bearer to the Mamur Zapt and forgot his place because of his foolish wife . ’ |
| 7 | He was secretary to the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge ( the future Linen Hall Library ) , 1794–6 , and assistant secretary to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution , 1812–43 . |
| 8 | Due either to age or lack of an appropriate patron , he held no central office again until 1668–9 , when he was secretary to the public accounts committee , the body charged with investigating whether financial malpractice had contributed to the naval disaster at the end of the second Dutch war . |
| 9 | He was nephew to the unfortunate Admiral John Byng [ q.v. ] , who was executed in 1757 . |
| 10 | He was home to lunch . |
| 11 | From 1853 to 1855 he was gardener to the Earl of Southampton at Whittlebury Lodge , Towcester . |
| 12 | Although Southall likes to wear black — he was head to toe in it on international duty for Wales in Belgium on Wednesday — he has n't lost his colourful sense of humour . |
| 13 | He was second to the list of scholars . |
| 14 | When he was second to Big Ben , he was two seconds faster and had only one fence down . |
| 15 | ‘ The Committee struck into himself when he was second to On The Other Hand , ’ Homer told me . |
| 16 | Last year he was coach to Oxford . |
| 17 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 18 | In that year he was host to the Princess Anne , who came to the synagogue during Passover , the first occasion on which a member of the royal family visited the Jews at prayer . |
| 19 | He was patron to Michelangelo , some of whose best sculpture were intended for Pope Julius ' tomb . |
| 20 | I for my part can not see why , subject to compliance with the proviso , a person should not be liable to be extradited under the terms of the Treaty if he was party to a crime committed in Sweden , such as , for example , the importation of drugs into Sweden , even if he was not himself in Sweden at the time of the importation . |
| 21 | She accused the President of carrying out a " constitutional coup d'etat " , hinting that he was party to a conspiracy involving sections of the Army , especially military intelligence . |
| 22 | He was runner-up to Alan Jones in that year 's championship but the following year pipped Carlos Reutemann by one point for the title . |
| 23 | He won again in 1898 and 1899 ; in 1900 he was runner-up to Taylor and in 1901 runner-up to Braid . |
| 24 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 25 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 26 | He reached her , he was face to face with her , the press girl Annabel was plucking at his clinging black roll-neck 's sleeve gingerly , with her fingertips . |
| 27 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 28 | There he was face to face with himself — times six . |
| 29 | He was Surveyor to Eton College 's Chalk Farm Estate , and was one of the few architects working in an Elizabethan style at that time . |
| 30 | The most influential philosopher to think about the problem of the ownership of empty land , John Locke , served as a secretary and adviser to yet another of the courtier-backed expansion schemes of Charles II 's reign ; he was agent to Lord Ashley , who later on as Lord Shaftesbury became a famous Whig leader but in 1663 was a well-placed courtier and one of a group who got a charter for a colony south of Virginia to be called Carolina . |