Example sentences of "he was made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 2 | In 1980 he was made Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lever Brothers Company , New York . |
| 3 | At the outbreak of World War I , though not the most senior of chief railway officers , he was made chairman of the Railway Executive , which controlled all aspects of railway operation . |
| 4 | In 1985 he was made Chairman of the Bovis Construction Group and appointed to the P&O SN Co Main Board . |
| 5 | At 39 he was made chairman of the Conservative Party by Sir Alec Douglas-Home , but was never in favour during the Heath years . |
| 6 | And he was made chairman of the Railway executive . |
| 7 | In 1920 he was made nuncio to the German Republic , although he did not move to Berlin until 1925 . |
| 8 | In August 1470 he was made warden of the west march towards Scotland , an office previously held by the earl of Warwick . |
| 9 | In August 1470 he was made warden of the west march towards Scotland , an office previously held by the earl of Warwick . |
| 10 | He was made FRSL in 1947 . |
| 11 | His regiment released him again to pass the Staff College in Quetta , and at the start of World War I in 1914 he was made intelligence officer to the Tanga expeditionary force . |
| 12 | He was made editor when he was 26 . |
| 13 | Beaton was initially given a sop ; on 10 January he was made chancellor . |
| 14 | Smith 's course , based on that taught in London by ( Sir ) Alexander B. W. Kennedy [ q.v. ] , was open to the entire university , a fact recognized in 1888 when he was made university lecturer in mechanics . |
| 15 | He was made constable of Bristol Castle in August 1307 and began to receive numerous royal grants . |
| 16 | His ascent began 10 years ago when he was made marketing director of Lever in the Netherlands . |
| 17 | He was made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1960 , after the KBE in 1955 . |
| 18 | In 1776 he was made lieutenant-colonel . |
| 19 | After a while so to , to relieve the boredom we used to throw orange peel at each other , little bits you know , screw it up and , and one hit this bloke who was made foreman before , before he was made foreman a and we had a fight . |
| 20 | Anyway we , we forgot about it and , and then he was made foreman later . |
| 21 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 22 | He was made inspector of the baths in 1787 and between 1788 and 1792 built the Great Pump Room with its exquisitely ornamented twin colonnades . |
| 23 | His effectiveness in this , his finest hour , was admired as his arrogance and conflict of interest were deplored , and he was made governor of the new colony of British Columbia on condition he leave the company . |
| 24 | In 1758 he was made envoy extraordinary to the king of Sardinia , living ‘ in a most splendid stile ’ in Turin , and very popular . |
| 25 | In 1926 he was made Castle Architect . |
| 26 | He was made sergeant the following year . |
| 27 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 28 | Payne was appointed canon of Christ Church in 1638 , and in November 1642 , in Royalist Oxford , he was made DD . |
| 29 | On 7 November he was made justiciar of north Wales for life in place of Hastings to whom Warwick had given the office in the previous August . |
| 30 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |