Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 2 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 3 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 4 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 5 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 6 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 7 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 8 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 9 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 10 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 11 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 12 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 13 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 14 | Through the psychedelic years he was a schoolboy in a depressed Lancashire cotton town , untouched alike by Liverpool noise and London turmoil . |
| 15 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 16 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 17 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 18 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 19 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 20 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 21 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 22 | from the earliest years he was enveloped in a clash of ‘ mythologies ’ , to use his word , and grew up aware of their contributive , as well as their competitive , differences . |
| 23 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 24 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 25 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 26 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 27 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 28 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 29 | In the next years he translated Weiss on the Psalms , published an introduction to Barth 's Church Dogmatics and continued to write . |
| 30 | In the 3 years he 's been there , he 's had 2 burglaries and this is the second van that 's been taken . |