Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 2 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 3 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 4 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 5 | He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way . |
| 6 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 7 | He was introduced to it as a game played in the garden before coming north from Devon in 1970 . |
| 8 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 9 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |