Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 2 | It 'd be nice to see Stubby again , have n't seen him since last year 's Club dinner . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 4 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 6 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 7 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 8 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 9 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 10 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 11 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 12 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 13 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 14 | She had known him for many years . |
| 15 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 16 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 17 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 18 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 19 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 20 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 21 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 22 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 23 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 24 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 25 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |