Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] year 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 Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy .
4 If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already .
5 For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life .
6 Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 .
10 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 .
11 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 ’ .
12 If a court decides on a two-year probation order , during the first year the person is mandatorily banned under the Bill and there is nothing to stop the court ruling that during the second year he or she should attend a motor course .
13 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 .
14 Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth .
15 During the next year he received an honorary LLD from St Andrews , and in 1913 the Royal Society awarded him the Davy medal .
16 During the next year he would have major roles in theatre , film and television .
17 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 .
18 During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated .
19 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 .
20 David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group :
21 Through the psychedelic years he was a schoolboy in a depressed Lancashire cotton town , untouched alike by Liverpool noise and London turmoil .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 — 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 .
26 His work prospered ; at the end of the first year he won the Literary Medal , and a cash prize which enabled him to go down and visit his mother .
27 At the end of the first year he went to France and Belgium on a two year mission for the Mormon Church , returning and graduating at BYU in 1973 .
28 In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill .
29 In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ !
30 His great Council had been held at Michaelmas 1102 ; by April of the following year he was once more abroad expecting a speedy return , but , as we have seen , he did not return until the end of 1106 .
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