Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] there [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 2 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 3 | I stayed there for five years and was still drinking . |
| 4 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 5 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 6 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 7 | She stayed there for three years and lost track of her sister during that time . |
| 8 | She remained there for four years , during which time she conducted researches on the optical properties of organic compounds . |
| 9 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 11 | We stayed there for eight years . |
| 12 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 13 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 14 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 15 | He remained there for six years until the new governor of Bombay , Sir George Clerk [ q.v. ] , |
| 16 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 17 | In the event he stayed there for six years , immersing himself in the special atmosphere of rural Ireland which he found greatly sympathetic . |