Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 2 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 3 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 4 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 5 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
| 6 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
| 7 | Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had thirty years ago , even in matters that affect national security . ’ |
| 8 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 9 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 10 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 12 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 13 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 14 | Broadly , if he gives the property away to his son or a share in his agricultural partnership to his son absolutely and he survives seven years no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 15 | If the taxpayer gives away his business or an interest in his business to his son and it is an absolute gift and he survives seven years then no inheritance tax is in point . |
| 16 | Papillon was his last film , and he died three years later in 1976 , aged 70 . |
| 17 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 18 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 19 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 20 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 21 | He is popular in Japan , more like a movie star than a politician ( partly because his brother , Yujiro , was a real film star until he died last year ) . |
| 22 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 23 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |
| 24 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 25 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh yeah , hanging around moonfaced like he did ten years ago , all ill-fitting clothes and two halves of shandy because he had his pushbike with him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What 's your church like ? ’ 'Is n't the Bible heavy-duty reading ? ’ 'How can Jesus be alive today if he died 2,000 years ago ? ’ etc , etc . |
| 29 | accident at service cos he wants all year four holding |
| 30 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |