Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 2 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 3 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 4 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 5 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 6 | Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport . |
| 7 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 8 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 9 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 10 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 11 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 12 | Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics . |
| 13 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 14 | He became honorary lecturer in microscopy at King 's College , London , in 1909 , a position he held for sixteen years . |
| 15 | In 1889 he was elected as first county councillor for Dursley , a position he held for thirty years and which was followed by nine years as county alderman . |
| 16 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 17 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 18 | This was produced in Baskerville 's capacity as printer to Cambridge University , an office he held for ten years . |