Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 2 | Again I can not believe of Jesus Christ that he is related to God in a way which is qualitatively different from that of all other human beings . |
| 3 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 4 | John Galt 's position with the Canada Company was undermined by jealous rivals and land speculators , who made allegations of irregularities in his accounts , with the result that he was recalled to London and dismissed . |
| 5 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 6 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 7 | The authorities have not responded to widespread allegations that he was beaten to death . |
| 8 | The next step in Hocazade 's career was that he was brought to Istanbul from Bursa by Mehmed II to dispute again with Molla Zeyrek , the latter having incurred the sultan 's displeasure by claiming one day in his presence that he — Molla Zeyrek — was superior to the highly revered scholar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani ( Seyyid Serif : d. 816/1413 ) . |
| 9 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 10 | The younger Eliot tried to revolt against Kipling , as against the Nineties , but the older had a ‘ feeling of destiny ’ that he was linked to Kipling . |
| 11 | At the start of the Malvinas war he is with the Escuadrilla de Ataque based at Punta Indio , flying Aermacclu-339As and he is sent to Puerto Argentina — ’ |
| 12 | The smoked window doors slam shut and he is removed to gnome hospital . |
| 13 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital . ’ |
| 15 | The scene completed , a car took Burton straight to the airport and he was flown to Los Angeles and admitted to hospital . |
| 16 | Oliver 's small possessions were put into a brown paper parcel , and he was led to Mr Sowerberry 's house by Mr Bumble . |
| 17 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 18 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 19 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |
| 20 | A country once famed for providing a succession of wingers now has only one orthodox link with the past , Tranmere 's Nevin , and he was preferred to John Robertson in attack last night . |
| 21 | Earl Douglas Haig , a Lt. General , was put in charge of the British Expeditionary Force that went to France , and he was promoted to Field Marshall . |
| 22 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 23 | And he was burned to death . |
| 24 | Ambulancemen found him unconscious and he was taken to Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital before being transferred to Middlesbrough General with severe head injuries . |
| 25 | Ambulancemen found him unconscious and he was taken to Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital before being transferred to Middlesbrough General . |
| 26 | Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course . |
| 27 | You wanted him to settle down and accept you , and then Claire came along — I was furious with him for upsetting her like that- and he was allowed to slack and play the fool at that damned school till he was right behind . |
| 28 | He was essentially a European filmmaker , and he was drawn to pictures that featured lavish costumes and spectacular sets . |
| 29 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 30 | He qualified in February , 1935 whereupon he was promoted to Sergeant . |