Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 2 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 3 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 4 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 5 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 6 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 7 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 8 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 9 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 10 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 11 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 12 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 13 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 14 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 15 | Even the Sun avoids the pejorative term , ‘ girl ’ , for this 23-year-old woman whose reputation comes out unscathed from the media coverage — Brute was burned alive by mother who lived in fear SEX SLAVE JAILED FOR KILLING SADIST LOVER ( Daily Mail ) ; SEX-SLAVE MUM GETS 3 YEARS IN JAIL She burned kinky lover ( Sun ) . |
| 16 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |
| 17 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 18 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 19 | By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months . |
| 20 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 21 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 22 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 23 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 24 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 25 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 26 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 27 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 28 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 29 | But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away . |
| 30 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |