Example sentences of "[adj] years [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 2 | no it was some years before she re-married again |
| 3 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 4 | TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th . |
| 5 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 6 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 7 | THE appearance of Sharron Davies in the swimming competition , 12 years after she won a medal in Moscow was a wonderful example of Olympic spirit at its best . |
| 8 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 9 | It was six years since she 'd crossed the bridge from where they 'd stood , and the river that flowed between was a torrent . |
| 10 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 11 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 12 | It took , by her own admission , six years before she felt comfortable appearing in her starring role . |
| 13 | Towards the end of 1956 Eliot proposed to Valerie Fletcher , almost eight years after she had started working for him . |
| 14 | Rabia 's prayer has been a most inspiring one to me , living in Jerusalem 1100 years after she did . |
| 15 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 16 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |
| 17 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 18 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 19 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 20 | The Cages had fallen silent as Minch told her story , for it was many years since she had recounted it and then only briefly . |
| 21 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 22 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 23 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 24 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 25 | But her sense of humour , courage and ability to love help her to survive those terrible years until she finds the happiness she deserves . |
| 26 | Sheila worked at 97 Kingston on the cheese and butter counter from 1955 for 11 years until she left to start a family . |
| 27 | Thirty-five years and she had never noticed her hands . |
| 28 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 29 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 30 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |