Example sentences of "[num] he be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind . |
| 2 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |