Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 2 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 3 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 4 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 5 | But he was already attracted to Lutheranism . |
| 6 | He was later taken to hospital , where he 's now under police guard . |
| 7 | He was later promoted to colonel . |
| 8 | But FIFA threatened that if he was not forced to back down , all five French clubs would be thrown out of next week 's European competitions , the national team would be barred from the 1994 World Cup finals and that France would no longer be able to host the 1998 finals . |
| 9 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 10 | To tell a child that he was automatically going to heaven , would not be biblical |
| 11 | He was soon posted to north Africa , and never met their only child , a daughter born 8 June 1941 . |
| 12 | He was subsequently moved to malt despatch when the maltings came into production and is now assistant chargehand . |
| 13 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 14 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 15 | It meant that he was about to go to work . |
| 16 | By the standards of a Blum or a Reynaud he was hardly subjected to persecution . |
| 17 | He was then sold to shipbroker Nick Embiricos , one of Gifford 's owners . |
| 18 | He was then taken to hospital for observation . |
| 19 | He was never brought to justice , and since he has long since died himself , we shall leave the matter there . |