Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 2 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 3 | A DJ for nine years since he was sixteen , Djaimin was born of an Italian father and English mum — but we still had to use Mike as an interpreter . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 6 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to get down about my injuries , but I shared digs with Alan for two years and he always kept me going . |
| 8 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 9 | Dr John O'Sullivan worked at ICI 's Northwich and Merseyside sites for 15 years before he was made redundant . |
| 10 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |
| 11 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 12 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 13 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 14 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 15 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 16 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 17 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 18 | A KITCHEN porter was yesterday jailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for two years after he was convicted of sex offences with young children . |
| 19 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |
| 20 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 21 | He was the head of fine art at the school of art for 20 years until he gave it all up to paint fulltime . |
| 22 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
| 23 | Rideout , boosted by scoring twice for the reserves in midweek , admitted last night : ‘ Graeme 's been one of the top strikers in the game for several years and he is a hard act to follow . |
| 24 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 26 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 27 | ‘ He ran the Mafia 's drug business in Britain for ten years until he was arrested in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 28 | Robert Bickerstaffe was the coxswain of the first Blackpool lifeboat for 23 years until he retired in 1887 , and one of his sons , John , became the first chairman of the Blackpool Tower Company — neatly linking the Institution with the title of the book ! |
| 29 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 30 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |