Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was heard to say to Winner , ‘ You know , I feel that in this sequence I 'm running a bit too slowly . |
| 2 | Choukeir claims he was invited to return to Kim 's flat , but there was a disupte . |
| 3 | He was invited to come to Teheran to talk to Carter after dinner . |
| 4 | So long as he was successful in that action too , a further thirty days later he was authorized to proceed to execution . |
| 5 | That had been when he was made known to Robert Asshe , Dinah 's father , heir of a long line of actors . |
| 6 | In 1903 he was a CMS missionary in Khartoum and acting chaplain to the forces but , on medical grounds , he was compelled to retire to England later that year . |
| 7 | When they got home , he was told to go to bed , and meekly obeyed . |
| 8 | Although he was allowed to travel to Germany on " humanitarian grounds " for the funeral of Willy Brandt [ see p. 39160 ] , Gorbachev was forced to cancel other planned visits . |
| 9 | Goma still showed signs of his beating when he was allowed to emigrate to France shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 11 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |
| 12 | He was forced to fly to Colombo last month to rescue a New Zealand tour after a Tamil suicide bomber blew himself up just 50 yards from the Kiwis ' team hotel . |
| 13 | Second , he was expected to lead to war the king 's benefice-holders ( vassi ) from within his county . |