Example sentences of "[noun] he have [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail .
2 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 .
3 He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school .
4 When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males .
5 In line with a January 1990 central government request for the resignation of all State governors , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Rustom Khushro Shaporjee Gandhi resigned as Governor of Himachal Pradesh , a post he had been appointed to in April 1986 .
6 On the same evening he had been admitted to hospital with heart trouble , but although his condition was reported to be good the next day , he did not withdraw his candidacy .
7 Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot .
8 From the beginning he had been determined to bed her .
9 Only that morning he had been summoned to the tent of the bearded one .
10 ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum .
11 Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus .
12 He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be .
13 Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him .
14 Mozart 's lodge , with others , was subsumed into a larger one , Zur neugekrönten Hoffnung ( New Crowned Hope ) , by which time he had been raised to the third degree , that of Master Mason .
15 He did n't tell Stella he had been asked to the football match .
16 The mere fact he had been invited to the eight-man special event represented progress .
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