Example sentences of "he was make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 . |
| 2 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 3 | He was made a CBE in 1988 . |
| 4 | He was made a CBE in 1978 . |
| 5 | Through his great-grandfather , Alfonso IX of Leon , he was distantly related to Edward I 's first wife , Eleanor of Castile [ q.v. ] : a connection which may have promoted both the marriage of Henry 's sister , Isabella , to Edward 's supporter , John de Vescy ( died 1289 , q.v. ) , in 1279 or 1280 , and Henry 's own entrée into English affairs in 1297 , when he was made a knight of the royal household . |
| 6 | In 1926 he was made a knight of Dannebrog ( Denmark ) and in 1929 made a knight of the Vasa ( Sweden ) . |
| 7 | In 1828 he was made a knight commander of the Guelphic Order . |
| 8 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 9 | When the right of control and transfer is conveyed , the holder relies on the same method of notification by which he was made a holder , except that he will be the initiator of the message to the carrier , and will need to await the carrier 's confirmation before the transfer process can be set in motion . |
| 10 | He had stood for them all , when he was made a hero of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself . |
| 11 | Certainly before he was made a man . |
| 12 | In November 1917 he was made a brigadier general in command of a brigade of 3,000 men . |
| 13 | For his generous relief to the people of Lewis during the great famine of the late 1840s , he was made a baronet in 1850 . |
| 14 | He was made a Life Member the following year . |
| 15 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 16 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 17 | Honours flowed : an honorary M.Sc in 1956 from the University of Wales ; the MBE in 1964 ; and highest accolade of all , he was made a member of Bards in 1975 . |
| 18 | Through influential friends , he was made a member of the Society of the Middle Temple in 1820 , and placed in the office of two eminent solicitors , a Mr. Justice Patterson , and a Sir Nicholas Tindal who later became the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . |
| 19 | He was made a member of the King 's Guard at Whitehall in 1641–2 . |
| 20 | In 1807 he was made a member of the Marylebone Vestry . |
| 21 | In 1881 he was made a member , the youngest , of a royal commission on technical education , chaired by ( Sir ) Bernhard Samuelson [ q.v. ] and inspired by the junior minister charged by W. E. Gladstone with education , A. J. Mundella [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | He was elected to honorary membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1960 he was made a Commander of the British Empire . |
| 23 | Wilson rose to become Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the end of the war and he was made a viscount , but with the publication of a book based on his diaries in 1927 ‘ Wilson 's reputation was blasted … |
| 24 | I believe that he was made a partner as soon as he had finished his degree — but that may be pure conjecture on my part . ’ |
| 25 | In 1966 , at the age of 28 , he was made a partner in the Glasgow office , and in 1974 he became joint senior partner of both Glasgow and Edinburgh with John Kirkpatrick ( later chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Is that why he was made a foreman , do you think ? ’ |
| 27 | In 1884 he was made a JP for London , Westminster , and Middlesex , and in 1889 he became an alderman of Middlesex county council . |
| 28 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 29 | He was made a freeman of the City of Birmingham in 1982 . |
| 30 | He was made a freeman of the City of London in March 1985 . |