Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 2 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 3 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 4 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |
| 6 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 7 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 8 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 9 | Ian from Earlsbury , I spent fourteen years in the air force , bull bullying has always gone on but only when soldiers did n't conform . |
| 10 | I spent nine years in Hi-Fi retail and always coached my staff to talk to our customers — their queries , desires and interests were our life blood . |
| 11 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 12 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 13 | I spent three years in Vienna as a student . |
| 14 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 15 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 16 | I did twelve years in Perm , and I was stupid … |
| 17 | Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard . |
| 18 | For example , er , I had last year in the in the class a student said that they missed an exam . |
| 19 | As a teenager she toured America playing Topsy in a Yiddish version of Uncle Tom 's Cabin ; and after several years in rep at Philadelphia , in such plays as The Silver King , Medea and The Kreutzer Sonata , she spent three years in cabaret and variety . |
| 20 | She spent three years in Paris studying biology under Baron Georges Cuvier , and then went on to Switzerland , the Netherlands , Germany , Italy , and Spain . |
| 21 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 22 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 23 | She faces 25 years in prison . |
| 24 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |
| 25 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 26 | He wants those years in jail allowed against the life sentence he got for the M60 machine-gun murder of SAS captain Herbert Westmascott in May , 1980 . |
| 27 | A fit and powerful man , a sportsman who also published The Young Cricketer 's Tutor ( 1833 ) by John Nyren [ q.v. ] , the first cricketing classic , he boasted sixty years in London without a headache . |
| 28 | Bought up Catholic Irish in New South Wales , he spent six years in a seminary before concluding he did not want to be a priest . |
| 29 | He spent five years in the top job , a hectic period which embraced not only the collapse of communism in eastern Europe , but , at the very end , the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War . |
| 30 | He spent five years in a prison camp next to a camp where Ukrainian women were held , and he and one of the captives , Maria , fell in love over the barbed wire . |