Example sentences of "[num] he [was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11 May 1991 he was taken to hospital suffering from 18 bruises and a bite mark . |
| 2 | In 1582 and 1586 he served Leicester in the Netherlands and later in 1586 he was returned to Parliament for Callington , Cornwall . |
| 3 | During 1521 he was admitted to membership of the Fraternity or Guild of St Nicholas , London — the guild of the parish clerks of the city 's parish churches , augmented by the professional musicians employed in the parish and other churches of London and its immediate neighbourhood . |
| 4 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 5 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 6 | At the end of August 1914 he was promoted to Brigadier on the field ; so suddenly that an elderly spinster had to furnish him with stars unsewn from her father 's uniform . |
| 7 | In 1593 he was returned to Parliament for the Yorkshire borough of Beverley on the interest of his kinsman Lancelot Alford . |
| 8 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 9 | In 1694 he was returned to Parliament , beginning a Commons career which lasted for more than sixty years as MP for Carlisle 1694–1702 , Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55 , and Appleby 1723–7 . |
| 10 | In 1857 he was promoted to locomotive superintendent of the northern division , covering all routes of the LNWR north of Rugby , at Crewe works where in the following year the first of almost 1,000 of his 0–6–0 type freight locomotives were built . |