Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 2 | Moreover , it has already been argued ( in Chapter 1 ) that there was a combination of influences at work internationally during those years which was conducive to rapid expansion , some of which arose directly from the war . |
| 3 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 4 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 5 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |