Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 2 | Because he 's laid claim to you , he does n't appreciate the fact that you 're public property . ’ |
| 3 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 4 | He was denied access to a lawyer for over three weeks . |
| 5 | He was interrogated by the Agency for National Security Planning for 24 days during which time he was denied access to his lawyers . |
| 6 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 7 | He was born heir to the betrayed promise of the Great War , after which another Welshman had assured the returning British soldier of a ‘ home fit for heroes to live in ’ . |
| 8 | Joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science from 1863 to 1878 , he was appointed physician to the West London Hospital in 1864 , lecturer on insanity at St Mary 's Hospital ( 1868–81 ) , professor of medical jurisprudence at University College London ( 1869–79 ) , and was elected FRCP in 1869 . |
| 9 | When he returned to Aberdeen towards the end of 1785 , he was appointed physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary . |
| 10 | In 1863 he was appointed hydrographer to the Royal Navy in succession to Rear-Admiral John Washington [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | In 1586 he was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Huntingdon , President of the Council of the North , where ‘ God so blessed his painful preaching and moderate private conference that he converted some of the Roman Catholic priests and many of the laity to the Protestant faith ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1870 he was appointed secretary to the royal commission on Friendly and Benefit Building Societies , and from 1874 until 1891 he was chief registrar of Friendly Societies — years he described as ‘ the happiest of my life ’ . |
| 14 | In 1639 he was appointed minister to the Dutch church in London , thus becoming a colleague of his stepbrother , Ambrosius Regemorter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 17 | In 1896 he was appointed naturalist to the Fitzgerald expedition to the Andes , and on his return contributed ‘ Notes on the Natural History of the Aconcagua Valley ’ to E. A. Fitzgerald 's The Highest Andes ( 1899 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1689 , through Locke , he was appointed auditor-general to Queen Mary II ; her death in 1694 was a great blow . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1793 he was appointed surveyor to the Mint , but was dismissed in 1794 for inattention to duty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was appointed surveyor to the Turnpike Trustees of the London to Brighton Roads ( 1818 ) and was responsible for the construction of a tunnel ( 1823 ) and suspension bridge in Reigate . |
| 24 | In 1909 he was appointed assistant to the director of the Geological Survey and , when Teall retired in 1914 , Strahan succeeded him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1920 he was made nuncio to the German Republic , although he did not move to Berlin until 1925 . |
| 27 | He was elected MP to his late uncle Thomas Alured 's seat at Hedon for both the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640 . |
| 28 | He left the bank after he was refused access to his file and returned carrying a bucket of petrol and a cigarette lighter . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was offered counselling to be paid for by the church . |