Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] years [subord] [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Isobel Thompson had been a missionary in West Africa for seventeen years before she became a deacon . |
| 5 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 6 | ‘ He ran the Mafia 's drug business in Britain for ten years until he was arrested in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 7 | Miss Fielding , from Stockport , presented Blue Peter for five years until she left in the summer . |
| 8 | ‘ I was captain of Darlington for many years so I know what it is like in his job . |
| 9 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 10 | The Richard the Third Society has the Duke of Gloucester as its patron , which is very pertinent because , as you know , Richard the Third held the title of Duke of Gloucester for many years before he became king . ’ |
| 11 | The pirate radio station was anchored off Walton on the Naze for several years until it was prevented from broadcasting by the Government . |
| 12 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |