Example sentences of "[coord] he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 2 | Frank Jessop was in his late 60's when he started needing to get up three or four times each night to pass urine , and he was referred to his local hospital 's urology department . |
| 3 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 4 | He received acetylcysteine , but his condition deteriorated , showing signs of liver failure , and he was transferred to this hospital for supportive treatment . |
| 5 | Acute self poisoning was suspected , and he was transferred to the Princess Alexandra Hospital . |
| 6 | Obviously John had no time to investigate the theory , and probably he would not have bothered anyway , since it looks convincing and he was given to quick enthusiasms . |
| 7 | She was alone now , and he was lost to her forever . |
| 8 | ‘ Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital . ’ |
| 9 | Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School . |
| 10 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 11 | The scene completed , a car took Burton straight to the airport and he was flown to Los Angeles and admitted to hospital . |
| 12 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 13 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 14 | I would n't put it past Nigel for showing off he did show off and he was trying to , he was trying to be really cool . |
| 15 | Oliver 's small possessions were put into a brown paper parcel , and he was led to Mr Sowerberry 's house by Mr Bumble . |
| 16 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 17 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 18 | and he was getting to be an old man and he had actually stopped and then father would take er would be asked to do the undertaking in that part . |
| 19 | Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly . |
| 20 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 21 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 22 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 23 | But the jury cleared Charles McGhee of nine of the ten charges of violence to prison staff , and he was sentenced to twelve months for wounding . |
| 24 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 25 | His wallet was stolen and he was dragged to the ground and kicked about the head and body before a passing motorist stopped to give assistance . |
| 26 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 27 | It was humid if not particularly warm , and he was stripped to the vest . |
| 28 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 29 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 30 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |