Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 2 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 3 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 4 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 5 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 6 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 7 | one was because they er wanted you for four years for definite after that working in evaluation so basically you 're committing yourself for five years |
| 8 | BOXER Mike Tyson 's bid to get a new trial was thrown out of court yesterday — by the judge who sentenced him to six years for rape . |
| 9 | Judge Anthony Hart described 28-year-old George Scott , who denied punching and kicking the male and female officers , as an ‘ arrogant thug ’ as he sentenced him to two years in prison . |