Example sentences of "year and had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 2 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 3 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 4 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 5 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 6 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 7 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 8 | I had n't taken part in a sponsored walk for many years and had forgotten the exhilaration of crossing the long awaited finishing line . |
| 9 | The Levys had been keen supporters and benefactors of the Trust for many years and had given hundreds of thousands of pounds to various projects in their lifetime . |
| 10 | Tommy had managed the little sweet factory for many years and had lived above it and brought up his family there . |
| 11 | He had served the congregation as Society Steward for over 30 years and had held many other offices as well . |
| 12 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 13 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 14 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 15 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 16 | She worked as a tailoress with the Tailoring Guild for many years and had made lots of good friends amongst her work-mates . |
| 17 | A vice-president of the Huddersfield League , he had been active in promoting junior cricket in Huddersfield for over 40 years and had been organising their Joe Lumb sides since the competition started . |
| 18 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 19 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 20 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 21 | He had suffered from these for seven years and had been in and out of mental hospitals many times and had received every available treatment including electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) — all to no avail . |
| 22 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 23 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 24 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |
| 25 | It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child . |
| 26 | He had been a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , Leeds , for many years and had been involved in the Annual Strawberry Fayre , organised cabaret nights , casino nights , race nights etc . |
| 27 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 28 | He had been a friend and ally of the president for many years and had served as chief of staff when Reagan was governor of California . |
| 29 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 30 | Min Chong had also lived in China for many years and had taken part in the Long March . |