Example sentences of "[prep] [num] he [be] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 4 | In 1950 he was knighted for his services to Greek ( he had been appointed MBE in 1919 ) . |
| 5 | In 1830 he was elected for the government borough of Rye and the following year was active as Tory assistant whip . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |