Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 2 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 3 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 4 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 5 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 6 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 7 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 8 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 9 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 10 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 11 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 12 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 13 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 14 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 15 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 16 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 17 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 18 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |
| 19 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 20 | I certainly heard it in later years . |
| 21 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 22 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 23 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 24 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |
| 25 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 26 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 27 | The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years . |
| 28 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 29 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 30 | ‘ I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop . |