Example sentences of "he be about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |
| 2 | Until I arrived , he had always been the smallest person in the country ( he was about ten metres tall ) . |
| 3 | In fact he was about ten years younger — a chubby young man with a very smoothly-shaven pink face , bulging urbanely under the jaw . |
| 4 | He was about ten feet away . |
| 5 | When he was about ten his father left the family and ran away to America with his employer 's wife . |
| 6 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |