Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A self-portrait from the period has the same decided , serene expression as one he had painted 18 years earlier , but his eyes and hair are engulfed in flames , his face is distorted . |
| 2 | It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year . |
| 3 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 4 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 5 | Of the other three , Port Erin had to wait 58 years for its lifeboat station , being formed only in 1882 , while those suggested for Jurby and Laxey never materialised . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Residents had to wait four years to elect their council after receiving that bill . |
| 8 | But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival . |
| 9 | ‘ Little Fav ’ ( he seemed everybody 's favourite , with his bouncy , cheerful disposition ) had to wait three years before his next Test appearance , though he continued to bamboozle many a batsman in domestic cricket . |
| 10 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 11 | I think that it is fair to say that , if hon. Members on either side of the House had realised 10 years ago that we would be debating a sum of almost £2 billion , none of us would have recommended the one-track community care solution that has been adopted . |
| 12 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 13 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 14 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 15 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 16 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 17 | The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | He was riding a stick shaped by George Downing on the pattern of an old balsa board George had crafted thirty years earlier . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 24 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 25 | In the show , set in a California motel , they had to age twenty-five years , which meant six complete changes of costume , hairstyle and make-up . |
| 26 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 27 | While chairman David Gare said the group performed well throughout the year , he had expected this year 's figures to be better than last . |
| 28 | It was a different Wedding Present to the one that had toured two years earlier . |
| 29 | He had shed ten years . |
| 30 | Daisy 's face above the frayed collar of her old black coat had shed ten years . |