Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vananu 's brother Meir Vananu told the Davar newspaper that the court had " rejected my brother 's request to allow the public to know how he was brought to Israel " . |
| 2 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 3 | His monastery was strongly affected by the evangelical movement in Seville in the 1550s , when he was converted to Protestantism , thereafter remaining a convinced Calvinist . |
| 4 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 5 | He continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837 , when he was sent to Persia by the synod of the United Secession Church to complete his labours . |
| 6 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 7 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 8 | He entered the world of local government in 1968 , when he was elected to Cheshire County Council at the age of 25 . |
| 9 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |
| 10 | He was educated at Bristol Grammar School until 1732 , when he was admitted to St John 's College , Oxford , as a Bristol fellow . |
| 11 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 12 | Stan persuaded me to play truant and take a two-week holiday to Italy where he was going to caddie for Craig Defoy . |
| 13 | Bob Hoover in his yellow P-51 shepherded Rare Bear as Shelton put her safely down on a taxiway where he was forced to ground-loop , without damage . |
| 14 | In February 1865 he made a brief visit to Oxford , where he was introduced to Gerard Manley Hopkins [ q.v. ] , their only meeting in person . |