Example sentences of "[prep] [art] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer . |
| 2 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 3 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |
| 4 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 5 | Lord Tebbit said : ‘ That is pretty silly of Mr Heath considering the years he spent trying to persuade people to vote against Lady Thatcher . |
| 6 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 7 | Over the years he was involved in a variety of fields from Transport to Defence . |
| 8 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 9 | Over the years he invested in South Africa and Mozambique . |
| 10 | Over the years he had worked hard into the night , had attended every lecture and tutorial , had scarcely taken time to attend student functions such as debates , except that these gave him fresh ideas ; he never spoke at them . |
| 11 | Over the years he made numerous attempts to give up drinking altogether . |
| 12 | The books is more than merely route descriptions though , as Harding recounts the times over the years he 's walked the various paths , adding anecdotes , descriptions of the people and insights into the history of the area . |
| 13 | Over the years he 's made extensive real estate investments . |
| 14 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 15 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 16 | I am quite sure that over the years he saved the company substantial legal costs ! ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 18 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 19 | Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine . |
| 20 | Over the years he has appeared in The Stone Boy , The Outsiders , Rumblefish , The Cotton Club , Paradise Alley and , most memorably , as the down-and-out DJ in Jim Jarmusch 's Down By Law and the jinked hobo in Hector Babenco 's Ironweed . |
| 21 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 22 | Over the years he has played league cricket and county cricket for Sussex and Glamorgan with resounding success , and on his last trip to England thrilled the crowd with a magnificent display of strokemaking at the Oval , scoring 260 as Pakistan ran up the imposing total of 708 . |
| 23 | Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning . |
| 24 | Over the years he has woven an intricate pattern of life in private and in business ; he has established a system of relationships which has the merit that it works . |
| 25 | Establishing the defence might be very important to the manufacturer if over the years he has supplied a lot of such gloves and a lot of wearers have suffered arthritis because of them . |
| 26 | Over the years he has done a marvellous job enthusiastically promoting the theatre and bringing world-class productions to local audiences in spite of the difficulties posed by the Troubles . |
| 27 | Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness . |
| 28 | Over the years he has worked in a number of formulation and raw materials management roles . |
| 29 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 30 | Over the years he had forged links with the Foreign and Home Offices , the crucial departments of Military Intelligence and the Government 's secret services . |