Example sentences of "[noun] he [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he was sent to Arles , where he came into contact with the rhetorician Julianus Pomerius . |
| 2 | To his intense disappointment he was taken to hospital with an internal disorder , and missed the opening of the battle . |
| 3 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 4 | In early February he was transferred to Pinar del Río Provincial Prison after agreeing to give up his protest and end his hunger-strike . |
| 5 | After his return to England he was articled to H. E. Kendall , and practised as an architect in London , at Victoria Square , Grosvenor Place . |
| 6 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 7 | Within two weeks he was transferred to Hong Kong without an explanation . |
| 8 | Later that evening he was taken to hospital , vomiting uncontrollably . |
| 9 | Pallister recalled the day he was switched to defence for Blakeston School . |
| 10 | The following day he was taken to Pristina prison to serve his sentence and was reportedly found dead in a prison cell two hours later . |
| 11 | They rapidly lost height and to save his crew he was forced to crush-land in the Sea of Marmara , within reach of the enemy . |
| 12 | As an adolescent he was apprenticed to Roger Vivian , an assistant of the Levant Company , and during the 1640s served as a factor to him in Smyrna . |
| 13 | Soon after John 's return from leave he was moved to Eastbourne . |
| 14 | Although his sister was now gravely ill he had to return to London but , on the voyage back , he was again afflicted with tachycardia and when the ship docked at Southampton he was rushed to hospital in London ; while recovering there , he learned that his sister had died . |
| 15 | At the beginning of March he was brought to trial and sentenced to a further one year and one month in a labour camp . |
| 16 | Once in New York he was invited to Wall Street where he addressed the assembled and hushed stockbrokers who had suspended business with the understanding that the talk would not exceed three minutes . |
| 17 | As he toured the Colony he was introduced to mayors , civic leaders and clergymen , men ‘ with an outlook , who had escaped the ruts of tradition ’ . |
| 18 | Like all members of the aristocracy he was addicted to hunting and liked nothing better than to be in the saddle and away before the crack of dawn . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In 1939 Letson once more volunteered for active service , and in August of the next year he was posted to Washington as military attache at the Canadian Legation . |
| 21 | In his childhood he was introduced to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] ; in 1921 Eamon de Valera [ q.v. ] expressed gratitude for his ‘ ripe counsel … in any hour of need ’ . |
| 22 | When Hercules completed his tasks he was welcomed to Olympus and granted the gift of immortality . |
| 23 | Despite a statement by Marina that she poisoned Ann Bacon , Thomas was found guilty , but as there was no absolute proof he was sentenced to imprisonment for life . |
| 24 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 25 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 26 | This time he was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital where he continued to be an outpatient for three years . |
| 27 | They were accused of threatening MPs , bullying one to such an extent he was reduced to tears , and bringing pressure to bear on constituency officials to try to persuade their man to change his mind . |
| 28 | He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards , the chairman and majority shareholder of United . |