Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 2 | He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago . |
| 3 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 4 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 5 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |