Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
2 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
3 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
4 | , is officially described as office cleaner , but became much more than that to the people who knew her during her 33 years with the company . |
5 | Periods of injury between 1972 and 1976 possibly robbed us of his best years . |