Example sentences of "he was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , at seventeen , he was bowing to Mrs Cohen 's wish and had entered University College to study medicine . |
| 2 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 3 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 4 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 5 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 6 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 7 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 8 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 9 | Soon after John 's return from leave he was moved to Eastbourne . |
| 10 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 11 | Richard knew he was related to Tory somehow , but was not sure if cousin was quite the right word . |
| 12 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 13 | " He never said that he was related to your wife . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 16 | Although Gregory insisted that he was related to thirteen of his predecessors in the see , his family was most obviously connected with Burgundy and the Auvergne , and a local priest , Riculf , saw him as an outsider . |
| 17 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 19 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 20 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 21 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was humming to himself as he drove — occasionally contributing to the conversation — a placid , contented family man . |
| 24 | Sex with Greg was improving a little , he was learning to be less selfish , to think of her pleasure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was condemned to death , and saved only by the intervention of a German padre . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical , he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |