Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 2 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 3 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 4 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 5 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 6 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 7 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 8 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 9 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 10 | He was invited to the Bishop 's home near Gloucester Cathedral , but that was where things began to go wrong . |
| 11 | He was invited to the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire to celebrate his centenary in suitable fashion , on the footplate of Nunney Castle , which once graced the tracks of the Great Western . |
| 12 | He was referred to the Jockey Club after repeating the offence later in the day on Daru . |
| 13 | On 6 March he was transferred to the prison infirmary suffering from skin problems and a dramatic fall in his blood sugar level resulting from the earlier hunger-strike . |
| 14 | Born in Hamburg , he was transferred to the Manor House at Amnersfield , the son of a remote German-American mother and of a sour , withdrawn , irritable Anglo-Scottish father , who would retreat behind the Times and spend the evening in lonely state , smoking his pipe in his kilt . |
| 15 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 16 | However , his physiotherapist decided that he would progress better in a specialist unit , so he was transferred to the care of a specialist stroke treatment centre in London . |
| 17 | After being diagnosed as HIV positive he was transferred to the Craigavon Hospital , Craigavon , Armagh , where he was not involved in any surgery . |
| 18 | Whilst that order was in operation he was transferred to the secure unit near Bristol . |
| 19 | He was transferred to the intensive care unit for intubation for airway control after a period of desaturation . |
| 20 | Acute self poisoning was suspected , and he was transferred to the Princess Alexandra Hospital . |
| 21 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
| 22 | In 1864 he was transferred to the newly built Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire . |
| 23 | On 21 December 1922 he was transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital , Dartford , Kent , where he remained until his death . |
| 24 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 25 | In 1939 he rejoined his regiment and served on the staff as a captain until 1944 , when he was transferred to the procurement and fine arts branch formed to protect historic buildings and works of art at risk during the invasion of the Continent . |
| 26 | After a couple of days in hospital outside he was transferred to the prison hospital . |
| 27 | He was transferred to the governorship of West Bengal . |
| 28 | It was held : ( a ) When the police took the deceased into custody they assumed certain responsibilities , including that of passing on information which might affect his well being when he was transferred to the prison authorities . |
| 29 | In 1613 he was transferred to the King 's Bench in which court he held in a case in 1615 ( Courtney v Glanvil [ 1615 ] Cro . |
| 30 | After being diagnosed as HIV positive he was transferred to the Craigavon Hospital , Craigavon , Armagh , where he was not involved in any surgical practice . |