Example sentences of "he [be] promote [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1399 he was promoted master in Chancery . |
| 2 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 3 | In due course he moved , like Dominic , to Bologna , from whose schools he was promoted chamber clerk to Pope Honorius III before 1224 . |
| 4 | However that may be , in 1807 Captain Mitchell was certainly commanding the sea fencibles at Shoreham , and the next year he was promoted rear-admiral of the blue , moving steadily up the grades by seniority until he became vice-admiral of the white ( Nelson 's highest rank ) in 1813 : he was also appointed KCB before his death , which took place at his house in Camberwell Grove , Surrey , in 1816 . |
| 5 | In 1648 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel and deputy governor and signed a letter protesting at the treaty with the king at Newport . |
| 6 | He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and transferred to the Secret Intelligence Service to unravel a disastrous muddle in the Netherlands . |
| 7 | In 1922 he reverted from temporary major to lieutenant ; he was promoted captain in 1924 and major seven years later . |
| 8 | He was promoted captain in 1854 . |
| 9 | He was promoted geologist in 1867 , when the branch was reorganized as the Geological Survey of Scotland with Archibald as its director , and he was promoted district surveyor in 1869 . |
| 10 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 11 | On 24 January 1942 he was promoted lieutenant-general . |
| 12 | He was promoted geologist in 1867 , when the branch was reorganized as the Geological Survey of Scotland with Archibald as its director , and he was promoted district surveyor in 1869 . |
| 13 | ‘ Quite right , sir , ’ thinking lovingly of what he would do when he was promoted Inspector . |
| 14 | On New Year 's day 1812 he was promoted major-general , and led his brigade with great courage during the bitter winter siege of Ciudad Rodrigo . |
| 15 | During the course of the war he was promoted colonel and brigadier , and was made chief cryptographer at GC and CS at Bletchley . |
| 16 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |