Example sentences of "who was [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shy Nina , who was related to the Wedgwood pottery family , left him her run-down mansion and contents worth £170,000 when she died aged 83 . |
| 2 | Pearce , who was related to Vanbrugh by marriage , acquired a substantial number of his drawings for buildings designed after about 1718 . |
| 3 | , James ( 1539–1597 ) , lawyer and parliamentarian , was born in 1539 , the eldest son of William Morice [ q.v. ] of Chipping Ongar , Essex , courtier and MP , and his wife Anne Isaac of Kent , who was related to Sir Thomas Wyatt and ( Sir ) Thomas Wroth [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 5 | Although the New Zealand team had a top wicketkeeper in Ken James , who was compared to Bert Oldfield , in ability , the Kiwi fielding was never up to the standard of today 's players . |
| 6 | When he took over in October 1964 , he enjoyed two other advantages : his majority of four ensured that the fractious Parliamentary Labour Party would have to behave ; and , apart from Patrick Gordon Walker , whom he appointed Foreign Secretary , and James Griffiths , who was sent to the newly created Welsh Office , only he possessed Cabinet experience . |
| 7 | Anyone like me who was sent to boarding school at an early age will identify with the personal difficulties of the young royals . |
| 8 | She only remembered that right from the beginning he took her with him , and it was she who was sent to the doors to ask politely if they had anything to sell . |
| 9 | Among them was 15-year-old Jeffrey Horler , who was sent to Feltham , 200 miles from his home in Great Yarmouth . |
| 10 | Special commissions of inquiry into maladministration were set up , but Edward reserved his special venom for Archbishop Stratford , who was sent to Brabant as surety for the king 's debts . |
| 11 | They fell foul , on the other hand , of Simon de Mont fort , who was sent to the south-west of France by King Henry III in 1248 to curb the unruliness there and ended up assaulting the Viscount of Soule in his castle in Mauléon . |
| 12 | Djore Držić 's nephew , Marin Držić ( 1508–67 ) , was a poor scholar who was sent to the University of Siena on a stipend from the Ragusan Senate . |
| 13 | Several animations use voice-overs which recount real-life experiences and dramas — sometimes autobiographical , as in Karen Watson 's ‘ Daddy 's Little Bit of Dresden China ’ ( 1988 ) , or researched and compiled from interviews , such as the story of Josie O Dwyer , an ex-prisoner who was sent to a reform centre at the age of 14 in Marjut Rimminen 's ‘ Some Protection ’ ( 1988 ) . |
| 14 | He took with him to England Theodore 's son Alamayahu , who was sent to Rugby School and then to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst , where he fell ill and died , aged nineteen . |
| 15 | Helen , who was sent to prison for annoying neighbours by playing the star 's biggest hit at full volume , was freed yesterday . |
| 16 | Hannah Hauxwell possesses an unusual sensitivity for one who was reared to the truly spartan life of an isolated dale in the thirties and forties when sheer hardship invariably deadened any aesthetic tendencies . |
| 17 | A church service has been held in memory of a man who was stabbed to death in his back garden . |
| 18 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 19 | Colin Stagg has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son . |
| 20 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 21 | Mr Trippier , who was said to be expressing the views of his constituents , wrote to Mr Kenneth Clarke on November 24 asking him to look again at the original 6.5 per cent pay offer , saying it was not fair . |
| 22 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 23 | Some appear as GHOSTS , while others turn into cannibalistic monsters like the witch BLACK ANNIS who was said to be a descendant of the Celtic winter goddess , Anu or Danu . |
| 24 | A named 40-year-old nurse who was said to be his previous girlfriend for seven years was reported as saying about her sex life with the man : ‘ We had a good love life . |
| 25 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 26 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 27 | His knowledge of Paris was confined to the underworld , but he did know that the bandit , Chicot , had a mistress who was said to be British . |
| 28 | There was a Venetian princess , Roksanda , who was said to be marvellously beautiful , and the Tsar Doushan of Serbia wished to seek her hand in marriage . |
| 29 | In February , a group of deputies , led by Marko Voljc , who was said to be a candidate for a post in the new government , had called for a no confidence vote against the government . |
| 30 | Mrs Fribbens , who was said to be too frail to give evidence in the original court case , died last weekend , from an unrelated cause . |