Example sentences of "[num] [pron] was [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1881 he was recalled to Dublin and put in charge of the RIC 's crime division , with the task of both preventing and solving politically inspired crime . |
| 2 | William remained close to Edward II after his accession , being retained as part of the king 's household ; and in 1310–11 he was sent to Gascony as one of English commissioners at the process of Perigueux . |
| 3 | In 1879 he was sent to England to oversee the European side of the business , and settled in Cheshire within easy reach of the textile mills of Lancashire where he placed a lot of business . |
| 4 | At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] who employed him on the Thames tunnel and on some sections of the Great Western Railway . |
| 5 | In 1929 he was recalled to Rome to take part — with his lawyer brother — in the final negotiations over the Lateran Treaty . |
| 6 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , in June 1626 he was introduced to George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , who had him knighted and appointed KC on the council of the north . |
| 8 | In 1811 it was transferred to Hackney Road in north London . |
| 9 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 10 | In 1847 he was apprenticed to John Inshaw , who had a small engineering business in Birmingham . |
| 11 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 12 | Rapid promotion to counsellor followed , and in 1958 he was sent to Malta as adviser on press and public relations to the Governor , who had had trouble with Mintoff . |
| 13 | In 1638 he was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn , a late admission suggesting a serious interest in the law . |
| 14 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 15 | Although the Shurmur family retained ownership , in 1706 it was leased to Edward Yeate , who was later replaced by his son , still engaged in cloth manufacture in the latter half of the 18th century . |
| 16 | Late in 1774 he was presented to Weston Longville , Norfolk , a well-provided living worth some £400 a year . |
| 17 | In 1816 he was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn but there is no record of his ever being called to the bar . |
| 18 | From 1811 to 1816 he was apprenticed to Bryan Donkin [ q.v. ] , |
| 19 | In 1816 he was apprenticed to John Cudworth , a Quaker , of the firm Broadhead & Cudworth , Leeds , to learn the retail tea trade . |
| 20 | In August 1914 he was recalled to England , and placed in charge of port security . |
| 21 | In 1608 he was sent to France , but brought home to marry Catharine , daughter of Thomas Howard , first Earl of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , on 1 December that same year . |
| 22 | In July 1961 I was summoned to Banbury Grammar School for an interview for the headmastership . |
| 23 | It subsequently became known that Serfaty had been released , and on Sept. 13 he was expelled to France , the Moroccan authorities having denied his claim to Moroccan nationality on the grounds that he held Brazilian citizenship . |
| 24 | Murdock worked at Soho for a short time and then in about 1779 he was sent to Cornwall as the firm 's chief mechanic and agent in all technical matters . |
| 25 | At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to John Powning , architect and builder , of Exeter . |
| 26 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 27 | Although the Republic of Nicaragua gained separate independence in 1838 it was subjected to US military intervention in 1912-25 and 1927-33 , after which the country was left in the control of the Somoza family until the overthrow of the right-wing regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle by a popular revolutionary movement , the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional — FSLN ) , in 1979 . |
| 28 | In 1886 he was appointed to Newcastle , the first of his six diocesan chancellorships . |
| 29 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 30 | On 12 June 1563 he was advanced to MA , and incorporated MA in Oxford on 23 February 1566 . |