Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the compensation payable to him being limited to £15,000 as the maximum amount of compensation payable to any one depositor , each of his five assignees could look to the fund for payment of £15,000 in respect of the £20,000 share of the deposit assigned to him . |
| 2 | The Adjutant and Charles had suffered together the Colonel 's frequent fits of bad temper in earlier weeks , so a little hasty advice about humouring him was offered to Charles on his way to the CO 's office . |
| 3 | Why , Mr M wanted to know , had he been sent to Sanday at all ? |
| 4 | As many practitioners know only too well , many pleas in mitigation would hardly get off the ground if they were not able to point to the possibility of the accused losing his job if he were sent to prison or were to have his driving licence suspended . |
| 5 | The appeals court ruling greatly reduces the chances that Peter McMullen , who claims he will be killed by the IRA if he is deported to Britain , will be allowed to stay in the United States . |
| 6 | PECKINPAH 'S LAST masterpiece , with James Coburn gloomily remembering , as he is shot to death , how he betrayed his values by tracking down free spirit Kris Kristofferson . |
| 7 | He is sentenced to death but dies in prison . |
| 8 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 9 | Next there is the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 10 | ‘ the instinct that it is contrary to fair play to put the accused in a position where he is exposed to punishment whatever he does . |
| 11 | At the start of the Malvinas war he is with the Escuadrilla de Ataque based at Punta Indio , flying Aermacclu-339As and he is sent to Puerto Argentina — ’ |
| 12 | Likewise , to give the fistula-suffering monarch ( Hugh Ross ) rather more than his fair share of Fisher King-like significance , he is made to stagger about in a stagy , enfeebled agony that could compete with Amfortas 's travails in Parsifal . |
| 13 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 14 | Again I can not believe of Jesus Christ that he is related to God in a way which is qualitatively different from that of all other human beings . |
| 15 | It could be said that his attitude is as a result of his poverty but in chapter three we meet a young boy called Chuck Little who ‘ did n't know where his next meal was coming from ’ but who was also ‘ a perfect gentleman ’ and when he is contrasted to Bob Ewell 's son Burris we see that they are both in similar circumstances . |
| 16 | While there he is introduced to Frances Rice , a charming and attractive girl , wearing an even more attractive sun hat . |
| 17 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 18 | Now he is confined to 125cc racing and this restriction was never more evident than at Carrowdore when he won the 125cc class which was the first race on the card and then spent the rest of the day on the sidelines talking to anyone who might listen to him — myself included . |
| 19 | Experts warned last night that it could be up to a year before he is returned to Jersey . |
| 20 | He is committed to schools fixtures and studying for his ‘ A ’ levels at Friends School . |
| 21 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 22 | He is lead to changes of the dosing of remedies because the ‘ variety among patients as to their irritability , age , spiritual and bodily development necessitate a great variety in their treatment and administration to them of the doses of medicines ’ . |
| 23 | The smoked window doors slam shut and he is removed to gnome hospital . |
| 24 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 25 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 26 | Just like his planes , he 's shot to bits , |
| 27 | ‘ If he 's spoken to Fräulein Müller , ’ Lefevre pointed out , ‘ he 'll realise you 're interested in Daniel 's death as well . ’ |
| 28 | Unless he 's promoted to Superintendent , he 'll face demotion , the sack or early retirement . |
| 29 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 30 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |