Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | During these years he was elected FRIBA ( 1850 ) , freeman of the City of London ( 1851 ) , member of the Company of Fishmongers ( 1852 ) , and associate of the Society of Civil Engineers ( 1858 ) . |
| 2 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 3 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 4 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 5 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 6 | For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858–9 was chief magistrate . |
| 7 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 8 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 9 | One of the first to join the society was Vincent d'Indy , who became its secretary in 1876 ; indeed , for many years he was effectively its head . |
| 10 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 11 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 12 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 13 | For several years he was frustrated by the state Supreme Court , which reviews all death sentences : over a nine-year period the court reversed 64 of 68 sentences . |
| 14 | For several years he was a member of Swaledale Fell Rescue team . |