Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 2 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 3 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |
| 4 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 5 | He has been compared to Freud , Whitman and Wordsworth , although the late John Cheever , in one of his more paranoid outbursts , suggested that he was merely an invention of the New Yorker . |
| 6 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 7 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 8 | He has been likened to Shakespeare 's Iago , to the Scottish grave-robbers Burke and Hare , to an ogre , to a rottweiler . |
| 9 | It looks like Strachen came through his reserve game last night 'cos he has been added to tonights squad . |
| 10 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 11 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 12 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 13 | He has been married to Emily for nearly forty years . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough whistler Jeff Winter has been given the good news that he has been promoted to the Football League middle for the start of next season a distinction held by only 90 referees in the whole of the country . |
| 15 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 16 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 17 | He has been attached to the Royal Hampshires since December last year . |
| 18 | Since 1985 he has been dedicated to the development and implementation of practical/operational expert systems for different sectors of industry including aerospace . |
| 19 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 20 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 21 | Then Teddy Sheringham blasted a terrific goal — but since then he has been sold to Spurs . |
| 22 | Every single action the Profitboss performs , every single decision he makes and everything he says are geared to an end-result . |
| 23 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 24 | He 's always had an anti-Leeds stance so whatever he says is going to be biased . |
| 25 | The operations of the mind which he describes are reduced to two fairly simple activities . |
| 26 | The range of textures , shapes and colours he achieves is attributed to his early career as an art director for an advertising agency . |
| 27 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 28 | What he does is to appeal to what he believed to be certain facts of human nature . |
| 29 | If the statement he makes is found to be true it will not be defamatory ( see Justification below ) . |
| 30 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |