Example sentences of "[num] he be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course . |
| 2 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 3 | In July 1964 he was fined for singing the Irish national anthem , ‘ A Soldier 's Song ’ ( in Irish ) at a republican rally in Ballycastle , County Antrim . |
| 4 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 5 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 6 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 7 | In 1950 he was knighted for his services to Greek ( he had been appointed MBE in 1919 ) . |
| 8 | In 1830 he was elected for the government borough of Rye and the following year was active as Tory assistant whip . |
| 9 | At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind . |
| 10 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |
| 11 | In 1600–1 he was paid for surveying for New College , while in 1602 he mapped the Cambridgeshire estates of Merton College , and in 1607 he surveyed an estate in Leicestershire for Brasenose College . |
| 12 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 13 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 14 | By 1782 he was paying for 16 boys and 7 girls aged 4 to 11 to attend the local school , and contributing money to build the local workhouse . |
| 15 | In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy . |
| 16 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 17 | In 1955 he was employed for one week by Douglas Fairbanks Limited at Elstree as a cover director , British cover director on a T V film that was being directed by an American . |
| 18 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 19 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 20 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 21 | At the age of eighteen in the early '50s he was working for Rickenbacker ( and was allegedly sacked for building a guitar to his own design ) . |