Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was wrestling with the bit about ‘ God leading thee into the w-w-wilderness for forty years to humble thee and to p-p-prove thee . ’ |
| 2 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |
| 3 | One of the sweetest successes was against the Australians , when Surrey became , in 1956 , the first county for 44 years to beat them . |
| 4 | And the mention of twenty years reminds me that that must be the number of summers you own to , Miss Abbott and that being young and having spent the afternoon in the sea air , you must be hungry . ’ |
| 5 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 6 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 7 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 8 | He claims that he plotted for ten years to marry her . |
| 9 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 10 | Firstly I have never seen a more clearer er grant from the government to actually let you build houses this year , this is whole point of th th this should happen and if we do n't take it up I believe that in future years to come we shall regret it very , very strongly indeed . |
| 11 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 12 | Nine jobs in sixteen years gave me an average of almost two years in each job . |
| 13 | Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith . |
| 14 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 15 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 16 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 17 | Not having any for fifteen years means I find them quite arbitrary now , impossible to control . |
| 18 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 19 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 20 | The van Gogh and Walter-Guillaume suits , started last September and December respectively , could take three to four years and the Walters ' lawyers fear French authorities could divert the former case to an administrative Tribunal which could take a further three to four years to judge it . |
| 21 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 22 | Incidentally , many of you have continued faithfully for several years to send me your used AMNESTY journals . |
| 23 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 24 | Generation ‘ The fact that Clinton went to Oxford for two years makes it even more likely that there will be a very good , firm and friendly special relationship on a personal level , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |