Example sentences of "he was [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 2 | He was condemned to death , and saved only by the intervention of a German padre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Before he left he was invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace by George V and Queen Mary . |
| 6 | He was referred to University College Hospital for specialist treatment . |
| 7 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 9 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 10 | He was asked to mike the case that supports his belief |
| 11 | ‘ He was stabbed to death this morning in Pentonville prison . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 17 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 18 | He was scorched to death . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ moaned Rafiq . |
| 20 | ‘ He was sent to hell-fire ! ’ his congregation replied . |
| 21 | He was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in Pinar del Río Province to complete the remainder of his three-year sentence . |
| 22 | When John Colville , Churchill 's secretary , joined the RAF , he was sent to Witbank for flying training . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was sent to prison for life . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was sent to prison on the Isle of Man . |
| 27 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 28 | He was sent to prison and , like every other conscientious objector in that war , was brought under very , very heavy moral pressure . |
| 29 | Once his mental instability was recognised , he was sent to hospital , but died of a heart attack in the ambulance . |
| 30 | After three visits to his doctor , he was sent to hospital for various check-ups . |