Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 2 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 3 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 4 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 5 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 6 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 7 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 8 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 9 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 10 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 11 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 12 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 13 | In the next years he translated Weiss on the Psalms , published an introduction to Barth 's Church Dogmatics and continued to write . |
| 14 | If this elevation to the highest level reflected John 's standing with his fellow magnates , in the ensuing years he gained and retained the confidence of the king . |
| 15 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 16 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 17 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 18 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |