Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | it re and he came back after eight years of of not working there and he came in hello Barbara ! |
| 2 | He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 3 | On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 5 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 8 | A great camaraderie and friendship evolved and miracle of miracles , he settled down for some years before a dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorph stole his heart for good . |
| 9 | When he thought back to those years in the Army , and the year immediately afterwards , it seemed to Jackson that he and Ross had scarcely been out of one another 's company . |
| 10 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 11 | The former Wales and Lions prop Charlie Faulkner , currently the Wales B assistant coach , who preceded James and McCreedy at Newport , has already announced his availability , though it is conditional on ‘ certain changes being made ’ — in other words , the resignations of those on the committee he fell out with two years ago . |
| 12 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 13 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 14 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 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 . |