Example sentences of "[pron] was made a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 2 | This transformation was usually accompanied by the enlargement of the area of jurisdiction of the kadilik through the addition of other districts in the vicinity : Konya , for example , was made a mevleviyet in 977/1569 " with the addition of certain sub-districts ' and the appointee later moved on to Maras , the kadilik of which was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Elbistan ; and Selanik , as mentioned above , was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Sidrekapsi . |
| 3 | She was made a baroness on the Hanover establishment by George IV in 1827 . |
| 4 | For this , and other sculptures in Ireland , she was made a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1907 . |
| 5 | The following year she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , and in 1986 a Lady Liveryman . |
| 6 | The executive , who was made a CBE for his work in connection with Lockerbie , said he would be pleased to accept the honorary degree as a recognition of the selfless contribution made by all those involved . |
| 7 | Dagda 's generous nature was inherited by his daughter , Brigid , who was made a saint for her many good works . |
| 8 | His wife Rebecca , daughter of Thomas Thorold , had evidently predeceased him ; the Pitsea estate was entailed on his elder son Samuel , who was made a baronet in 1671 . |
| 9 | A while later she married and had a second baby ; it was made a ward of court . |
| 10 | He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 . |
| 11 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 12 | He was made a CBE in 1988 . |
| 13 | He was made a CBE in 1978 . |
| 14 | Through his great-grandfather , Alfonso IX of Leon , he was distantly related to Edward I 's first wife , Eleanor of Castile [ q.v. ] : a connection which may have promoted both the marriage of Henry 's sister , Isabella , to Edward 's supporter , John de Vescy ( died 1289 , q.v. ) , in 1279 or 1280 , and Henry 's own entrée into English affairs in 1297 , when he was made a knight of the royal household . |
| 15 | In 1926 he was made a knight of Dannebrog ( Denmark ) and in 1929 made a knight of the Vasa ( Sweden ) . |
| 16 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 17 | He had stood for them all , when he was made a hero of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself . |
| 18 | For his generous relief to the people of Lewis during the great famine of the late 1840s , he was made a baronet in 1850 . |
| 19 | Honours flowed : an honorary M.Sc in 1956 from the University of Wales ; the MBE in 1964 ; and highest accolade of all , he was made a member of Bards in 1975 . |
| 20 | Through influential friends , he was made a member of the Society of the Middle Temple in 1820 , and placed in the office of two eminent solicitors , a Mr. Justice Patterson , and a Sir Nicholas Tindal who later became the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . |
| 21 | He was made a member of the King 's Guard at Whitehall in 1641–2 . |
| 22 | In 1807 he was made a member of the Marylebone Vestry . |
| 23 | He was elected to honorary membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1960 he was made a Commander of the British Empire . |
| 24 | In 1966 , at the age of 28 , he was made a partner in the Glasgow office , and in 1974 he became joint senior partner of both Glasgow and Edinburgh with John Kirkpatrick ( later chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee ) . |
| 25 | In 1884 he was made a JP for London , Westminster , and Middlesex , and in 1889 he became an alderman of Middlesex county council . |
| 26 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 27 | He was made a freeman of the City of Birmingham in 1982 . |
| 28 | He was made a freeman of the City of London in March 1985 . |
| 29 | After the war , he was made a Freeman of London , again a unique achievement for a deaf man . |
| 30 | He was made a freeman of the City of London in 1917 and an honorary liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners . |