Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 2 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 3 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 4 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 5 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 6 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
| 7 | There he remained until 18 March 1986 when , no doubt because his condition had deteriorated , he was transferred back to hospital . |
| 8 | Lewis knew very well he should not do this , that he was sucking up to someone for the sake of inheriting his property . |
| 9 | In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 . |
| 10 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 11 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 12 | Peter Graham Scott , who made some episodes of Danger Man and the TV play The Quare Fellow , was working on the legendary series The Troubleshooters when he was called on to direct several episodes of Sir Francis Drake , including the opening one . |
| 13 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 14 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 15 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 16 | He was strapped down to his bed and as Irina stood watching him he stirred , the eyelids fluttered open for a second and then closed tight . |
| 17 | But opportunities for races on grass on the East coast were limited , so he was flown out to California to join Ron McAnally , in whose charge he won a division of the $40,000 Henry P. Russell Handicap . |
| 18 | He did not fly operationally again with the squadron , being posted temporarily to A.H.Q. Malta at Safi as a test pilot until 12 June , when he was flown out to Gibraltar in a Sunderland . |
| 19 | He was flown back to Britain by air ambulance and his condition last night was described as critical . |
| 20 | Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday . |
| 21 | ‘ As a youngster he was sent out to Australia to work as a jackaroo on a sheep station . |
| 22 | Almost immediately after birth he was sent out to a wet-nurse at the nearby village of Syderstone , where he remained until he was weaned , at about 18 months . |
| 23 | and he was sent out to Rhodesia , to Rhodesia |
| 24 | He was sent back to be shot by the Red Army . ’ |
| 25 | He clashed with his superior and was moved to a different section , and after a series of complaints about his behaviour he was sent back to England at the request of the ambassador at the beginning of May 1951 . |
| 26 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 27 | He was sent back to Scotland to be educated , completing his formal education with a science degree from Edinburgh University . |
| 28 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 29 | On April 21st , he was sent back to his corps in the Argonne by Knobelsdorf , but before departing he gave vent to his doubts in a memo to the Crown Prince . |
| 30 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |