Example sentences of "[prep] ten years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 After ten years you have the choice of continuing to save or stopping contributions and letting the money grow .
2 In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse .
3 He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed .
4 And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down .
5 For ten years he had been her constant companion .
6 For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams .
7 For ten years he combined his work at the hospital with a specialist practice in mental deficiency at Earlswood .
8 For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick .
9 Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain .
10 But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be .
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