Example sentences of "[pron] he be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 2 | The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at the ceremony , at which he was presented three jars of cherries from the orchard . |
| 3 | Crawford 's performance , for which he was paid 30 a week , also won praise from theatre critics . |
| 4 | Bob , son of the designer of the Norseman , worked with his father one summer flight testing Norseman aircraft , for which he was paid 40 cents an hour , later rising to 52 cents an hour ! |
| 5 | He came into the hangar where Preston was gluing bits of plane together and told him he was taking one of the new chaps up for a spin . |
| 6 | In 1873 he married Janet Marshall ( only daughter of John Macfie of Edinburgh ) by whom he was to have five daughters , but , as the Indian climate suited neither her nor their first child , he returned to Scotland on leave and resigned in 1879 . |