Example sentences of "where [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 2 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 3 | He , knowing of vindictive blood in her family , got her kidnapped and dumped on St Kilda , where she spent several years , with a waiting-maid for company . |
| 4 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 5 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 6 | He went on to Italy , where he spent two years in the study of medicine at Padua University . |
| 7 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 8 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 9 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 10 | Mike Watts is returning from Canada where he emigrated twenty years ago and his ‘ bit of a holiday ’ is as modest as the Columbus connection is an overstatement . |