Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model . |
| 2 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 3 | He 'd lived fifty years too long . |
| 4 | He looked as though he 'd lost twenty years , as though a ten-ton weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 5 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 7 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 8 | When I needed some black shoes for the annual ASP banquet in Honolulu , Bodo van der Leeden dug out a pair he 'd bought fifteen years before . |
| 9 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 10 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 11 | He started drinking 18 years ago . |
| 12 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 13 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 14 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 15 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 16 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 17 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
| 18 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |
| 19 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 20 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 21 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 22 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 23 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 24 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 25 | CRUMLIN Road jail escaper Joe Doherty should have had the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before a decision was taken to delay a review of his sentence until he had served 10 years in Northern Ireland , a court has heard . |
| 26 | He had served 27 years on Robben Island along with Mandela and other political prisoners , for his part in launching the PAC 's armed resistance in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | He had served six years in the Cabinet under Muldoon , and had been opposition leader since 1986 . |
| 28 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 29 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 30 | He had served ten years in jail in the Republic for armed robbery ; eight years ago his brother Seamus was killed by the R U C along with Roddy McCarroll , both members of the Irish National Liberation Army . |