Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 3 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 4 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 5 | He was condemned to death , and saved only by the intervention of a German padre . |
| 6 | He was condemned to death in his absence ( 469 ) and arrived in Persia as late as 465 , eluding en route an Athenian fleet which was besieging Naxos . |
| 7 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 8 | Before he left he was invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace by George V and Queen Mary . |
| 9 | He was referred to University College Hospital for specialist treatment . |
| 10 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 12 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 13 | He was asked to mike the case that supports his belief |
| 14 | ‘ He was stabbed to death this morning in Pentonville prison . |
| 15 | A warrior in the service of Cesare Borgia , he was stabbed to death in 1501 in a quarrel with another man over possession of a fancy Spanish shirt . |
| 16 | Paul Sheldon , 20 , was out with his 18-year-old brother , Peter , and a friend , Tom Cole , when he was stabbed to death in a quiet residential street in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | The computer-enhanced images were put together by police artists with help from Peter Sheldon , 18 , who was with his brother when he was stabbed to death . |
| 18 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 19 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 20 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 21 | He was scorched to death . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ moaned Rafiq . |
| 23 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ his congregation replied . |
| 24 | He was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in Pinar del Río Province to complete the remainder of his three-year sentence . |
| 25 | When John Colville , Churchill 's secretary , joined the RAF , he was sent to Witbank for flying training . ’ |
| 26 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 27 | He was sent to prison for life . |
| 28 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 29 | He was sent to prison on the Isle of Man . |
| 30 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |