Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 2 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 3 | A charity worker says his social security payments are being stopped because he 's taking aid to Sarajevo . |
| 4 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 5 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |
| 6 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 7 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1689 , through Locke , he was appointed auditor-general to Queen Mary II ; her death in 1694 was a great blow . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was to pay tribute to Kingsmill after his death in an exchange of letters with Malcolm Muggeridge , published as About Kingsmill ( 1951 ) , and recalled what had been the deepest friendship of his life between the lines of Johnson and Boswell ( 1958 ) , the last book written at the height of his powers . |
| 17 | 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 . |