Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 2 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 3 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 4 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 5 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |