Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 2 | He has studied for four years at the Beda College in Rome . |
| 3 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 4 | The 32-year-old central defender will hand in his application this week to a club he has served for nine years in two spells . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 7 | His proud mother , Rita Coyne , said : ‘ He has struggled for two and a half years and is now determined to live life to the full . ’ |
| 8 | Despite losing the seat he has held for nine years Mr Lee managed to increase the Tory vote . |
| 9 | What inspires him at the moment is the once-in-a-lifetime trip to the US that he has organised for 40 Lebanese orphans . |
| 10 | The question of Mr Brown 's achievements has become more pressing because of a Californian term-limits law ( yes , another initiative ) which will eject him by 1996 from the assembly where he has sat for 27 years . |
| 11 | Mr Tony Byrne , aged 35 , from Middlesbrough , joins the company from BASF where he has worked for 13 years . |
| 12 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 13 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 14 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 15 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 16 | He decides to apply for 500 shares . |
| 17 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 18 | These included a photograph of Weisdale Voe , taken from his local in Shetland where he had lived for five years ; photographs of himself and friends on Lost City trips ; and photographs and posters relating to his prime interests , those of a naturalist , a birder , a twitcher . |
| 19 | Tragic Victor Dudley , 59 , who had fallen behind with his mortgage after losing his job , was heartbroken at the thought of leaving the house where he had lived for 30 years . |
| 20 | He was eventually put ashore on the island of Emira where he had to live for six days on coconuts before being rescued and brought to Sydney , Australia . |
| 21 | When he attacked C. P. Snow in Two Cultures ? ( 1962 ) , it was the last act of a drama in which he had played for thirty years . |
| 22 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 23 | John Coleridge , ‘ an Israelite without guile ’ , had probably died of a massive stroke , and a few days later was buried on the north side of the altar in the church he had served for twenty-one years . |
| 24 | Stravinsky was then 28 , and much influenced by the gorgeous and sumptuous orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov , with whom he had studied for three years . |
| 25 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 26 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 27 | He had survived for one reason only . |
| 28 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
| 29 | He had toiled for 19 wicketless overs on a bouncy pitch but seemed much more cheerful when he re-emerged after tea with his arm around Mayer . |
| 30 | He had accounted for fifty-four German planes . |