Example sentences of "[noun] appointed [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Victoria appointed him Inspector of Fisheries , and he took his job seriously , persuading millers to install salmon ladders over their weirs . |
| 2 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 3 | In 1945 the newly formed Communist government appointed him head of music for Polish radio , based in the southern city of Katowice . |
| 4 | INTERESTING sidelight on behaviour in the corridors of power : Nigel Lawson has revealed that when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer , she told him to get his hair cut . |
| 5 | Scarcely known in the south until Mrs Thatcher appointed him Lord Chancellor in 1987 , he was the outsider with a brief to sweep away restrictive practices . |
| 6 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 7 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |