Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [vb pp] 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 He was soon posted to north Africa , and never met their only child , a daughter born 8 June 1941 .
9 He was subsequently moved to malt despatch when the maltings came into production and is now assistant chargehand .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 By the standards of a Blum or a Reynaud he was hardly subjected to persecution .
13 He was then sold to shipbroker Nick Embiricos , one of Gifford 's owners .
14 He was then taken to hospital for observation .
15 He was never brought to justice , and since he has long since died himself , we shall leave the matter there .
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