Example sentences of "[verb] he for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 2 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 3 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 5 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 6 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 7 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 8 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 9 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 10 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 11 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 12 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 13 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 14 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 15 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 16 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 17 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 18 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 19 | The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years . |
| 20 | She had known him for many years . |
| 21 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 22 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 23 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 24 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 25 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 26 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 27 | My famous dog Oggie , who has alternately made me hate and love him for 12 years , has passed his tendency for being naughty on to his children . |
| 28 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 29 | ‘ Ban him for two years ’ |
| 30 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |