Example sentences of "him [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 2 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 3 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 4 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 5 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 6 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 7 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 8 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 9 | She had known him for many years . |
| 10 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 11 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 12 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 13 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 14 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 15 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 16 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 17 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 18 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 19 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 20 | The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years . |
| 21 | It , it 's only part of , of the pattern , but it 's obviously er a good sign because er Iran has reason to know er what Saddam Hussein is like , having been at war with him for eight years — totally un , unpredictable man and a completely ruthless man . |
| 22 | But Pompey have not had to fend off a serious inquiry about him for two years . |
| 23 | ‘ Ban him for two years ’ |
| 24 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 25 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 26 | Lord Lawson , as he now is , gives many ‘ through the keyhole ’ insights into the woman who lived next door to him for six years , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 27 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 28 | Friend and photographer Howard Bingham has travelled with him for thirty years . |
| 29 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 30 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |