Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 2 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 3 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 4 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 5 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 6 | He was appointed paediatrician to Queen Charlotte 's Maternity Hospital ( 1933 ) , and physician to the Hospital for Sick Children , the Middlesex Hospital , and the British Postgraduate Hospital , Hammersmith ( 1934 ) , where he developed the renowned premature-baby unit in 1947 . |
| 7 | In 1689 , through Locke , he was appointed auditor-general to Queen Mary II ; her death in 1694 was a great blow . |
| 8 | The partnership was dissolved in June 1735 when he was appointed goldsmith to Frederick Louis , prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , and moved to Panton Street . |
| 9 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 10 | On retirement he was appointed ADC to Queen Victoria and Lieutenant of the Tower of London . |
| 11 | In 1950 he was appointed Trainer to Palace 's League team and was twice nominated in that capacity to the Division 3 South eleven in the annual representative matches against their northern counterparts . |
| 12 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |