Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't been near me for three years . ’ |
| 2 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 3 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 4 | I could n't just walk out on them after three years with the organization . |
| 5 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 6 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 7 | Will you remember me in three years ? |
| 8 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 9 | Jailing him for three years , Judge Gerald Butler told Southwark Crown Court : ‘ It is only too obvious what mischief can be caused if passports are obtained and used by people not entitled to them . ’ |
| 10 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 11 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 12 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 14 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | Constanze 's guardian accordingly drew up a document that Mozart was required to sign , promising to marry her within three years , or else pay a large sum as compensation . |
| 17 | Beatty remembered him from three years before , when Hackman had a small but impressive scene in Lilith , Robert Rossen 's final film , which starred Beatty . |
| 18 | The farm was her prison until her inheritance from her father 's estate freed her in three years ' time . |
| 19 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 20 | Placing him on three years ' probation , Mr Justice Hodgson said : ‘ This is a tragic case . |
| 21 | I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . |
| 22 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 23 | On average , says the study , buying a share at its initial offering and holding it for three years yielded a total return ( dividends plus capital growth ) of just 8% . |
| 24 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 25 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 26 | Well you still do it for three years and ! |
| 27 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 28 | Murray Kidd did a good job for us for three years , but he had obviously had a greater affinity for three quarter play than forwards . ’ |
| 29 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |