Example sentences of "he was [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he was under contract to Warners , where I had worked . |
| 2 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 3 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 4 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 5 | But he was in thrall to Deuce , who now reappeared in the distance followed by an over-liveried porter who was carrying two large suitcases . |