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 . |