Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 2 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 3 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 4 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 5 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 6 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 7 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 8 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 9 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 10 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 11 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |