Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 2 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 3 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 4 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 5 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 6 | He was attached to the 3rd Army Corps , and while serving in France he earned a mention in despatches . |
| 7 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |