Example sentences of "he years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
| 2 | ‘ If only his teachers and psychologists had identified his problems earlier on , we could have saved him years of anguish , ’ his father said . |
| 3 | Charlie 's scrimshaw was particularly beautiful , an art that had taken him years to perfect and of which he was extremely proud . |
| 4 | The idea that his father might have visited prostitutes came to him years ago , during a spate of murders of prostitutes . |
| 5 | ‘ To discuss a patient I nursed for him years ago . |
| 6 | for him years of struggle to get any influence to finally find himself |
| 7 | His tutor , Marjorie Daunt , and others who taught him remembered him years later as an intelligent if somewhat odd member of their classes . |
| 8 | In fact he returned to Amsterdam , but in 1681 he agreed to serve as leader of the English Sephardi community which had been so generous to him years before . |
| 9 | That taunting , dismissive tone must have taken him years to perfect , she thought irritably . |
| 10 | Someone should have said all this to him years ago . |
| 11 | She should have left him years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I had done with him years ago . ’ |
| 13 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 14 | He 'd been with him years . |
| 15 | He says it would take him years to get the house the way he 'd like it . |
| 16 | Father , when he used to , I 'd seen him years ago when he was a young man , he 'd do a sheep in five minutes . |
| 17 | Met him years ago . ’ |
| 18 | No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come |
| 19 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
| 20 | You know , I do n't remember him years ago . |
| 21 | did n't he years ago and the big kids sort of , well not torment him , but he 's for the fun you know |