Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 2 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 3 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 4 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |
| 5 | Well , after a fashion , you met him ten years ago or so . |
| 6 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 7 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 8 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 9 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 10 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 11 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 12 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 13 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 14 | It took him three years . |
| 15 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 16 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 17 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 18 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 19 | He had a little pink around his muzzle and eyes when I bought him two years ago , but this has been gradually increasing and is now quite extensive . |
| 20 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 21 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 22 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 23 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |
| 24 | Had him five years so . |
| 25 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
| 26 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 27 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |
| 28 | Of course now they 're recalling the fact that Tweed 's wife left him several years ago for a Greek shipping magnate , that he has n't had a lot to do with women since … ’ |