Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
| 2 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 3 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 4 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 5 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 6 | My wife and I divorced 12 years ago — and she has since remarried . |
| 7 | And you did two years as an apprentice then another would come in and you dropped the bib and got a black apron . |
| 8 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 9 | One of the pupils of Northampton High School to achieve distinction was Bernard L. Pitcher , who was born deaf and who received six years of private tuition before entering the school . |
| 10 | The flesh under her chin sagged as the fat disappeared but after just 5 months of stretching her lower jaw over her front teeth 5 times a day , her neck toned up magnificently and she looked 10 years younger ! |
| 11 | And we had two years with no pay rise . |
| 12 | I 'm , er , the director of the National Osteoporosis Society and we started five years ago and as Helen said just now , we are in the business of informing women , not saying all women should be going on hormone replacement therapy ! |
| 13 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 14 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 15 | Then Guthrie came on the scene and there followed thirteen years of hassle , restructuring and losses . ’ |
| 16 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 17 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 18 | Papillon was his last film , and he died three years later in 1976 , aged 70 . |
| 19 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 20 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 21 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 22 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 23 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 24 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 25 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 26 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |