Example sentences of "year [adv] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Revell began experimenting with guitars at the age of fourteen , and five years later he landed a position working with Chris May and Andy Preston , refining his skills while turning out Overwater electrics . |
| 2 | Some years later he took a disciple named Chen Chia Kou and taught him everything he knew . |
| 3 | Four years later he spent a week in hospital with viral pneumonia . |
| 4 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 5 | Two years later he obtained a reversion to the office of the queen 's printer . |
| 6 | Two years ago he took a diploma in leisure management at Southampton University and last year added a course in computing at Portsmouth 's Highbury College . |
| 7 | Some years ago he gave a sequence of exciting and idiosyncratic lectures on physics to students at Caltech . |
| 8 | , writes : A FRIEND maintains that about 10 years ago he boarded a train in London , played cards and had a few drinks and did n't leave the train until he reached Paris . |
| 9 | Appointed as vicar of St Paul 's , Worcester , in 1914 , a year later he became a chaplain to the armed forces and began the wartime ministry among the troops in France and Flanders for which he is most remembered . |
| 10 | A year later he bought a Lea-Francis — the Flying Standard had collapsed — then a Mark 1O Jaguar , then a Cadillac , then the red MG which he never sold and took to Switzerland . |
| 11 | A year ago he had a heart by-pass which had to be re-done and for a while totally lost his sight because of a clot in the blood supply to the eyes . |