Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 2 | It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall . |
| 3 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 4 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 5 | He lived 58 years longer than John Pearson , who died in Derby City Hospital in July , 1980 , aged three days . |
| 6 | Ivan said Sue , whom he met two years ago , had spent almost every hour with him during and since the operation . |
| 7 | Curiously , after dodging a lot of personal questions , the actor opens up when talking about his relationship with Lewis , whom he met two-and-a-half years ago filming a lurid NBC movie of the week Too Young To Die ? |
| 8 | He got two years for dreath death by reckless driving . |
| 9 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 10 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 11 | He got three years . |
| 12 | There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger . |
| 13 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 14 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 15 | He specifies 150 years because he has in mind the social and political reforms of Peter the Great in the early Eighteenth Century . |
| 16 | Though he devoted six years of his life to the RPF , de Gaulle virtually ignored it in his memoirs . |
| 17 | As he has other years . |
| 18 | He has many years experience in carpet retail selling . |
| 19 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 20 | ( Hons. ) degree and has taught Maths , English and Social Sciences at both Primary and Middle schools , added to which he has 13 years experience in embalming . |
| 21 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 22 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 23 | He has 30 years experience in the sector . |
| 24 | Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats : |
| 25 | He stopped growing years ago , unless he 's growing a beer belly , which would n't surprise me . ’ |
| 26 | Dotty was thirty-nine , but had he added twenty years onto her age he knew it would n't have deterred Harbour . |
| 27 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 28 | He mentioned six years ! |
| 29 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 30 | He wants those years in jail allowed against the life sentence he got for the M60 machine-gun murder of SAS captain Herbert Westmascott in May , 1980 . |