Example sentences of "[det] [noun] he be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 2 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 3 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 4 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | This man he was spoken to the night afore and another one . |
| 6 | This summer he is going to American in the hopes of meeting Darlene from Roseanne . |
| 7 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This time he was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital where he continued to be an outpatient for three years . |
| 10 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |
| 11 | Later that evening he was taken to hospital , vomiting uncontrollably . |
| 12 | Later that morning he was flown to the South West and shown a beautiful industrial site with excellent access to the adjacent port facilities . |
| 13 | Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | That same year he was appointed to ‘ the place and quality of Geographer in Ordinary to his Majesty ’ . |
| 16 | After several warnings he was called to the front of the class , told to hold out his hand and caned by Miss Smith with the flat of a foot ruler . |
| 17 | On several occasions he was driven to the point of resignation . |
| 18 | In July that year he was raised to the peerage . |
| 19 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 20 | My father was obviously enjoying the company of the Masons ; like most people he was gratified to be seen with a well-known golfer and to be ever-so-slightly in the spotlight . |