Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [det] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the old historians of this County take notice of this Chantry , not even Mr Lambarde , who lived some years in the Bishops ' Palace here . |
| 2 | The John Motum Plate was named in recognition of the current assistant treasurer of the RFU who spent many years as general secretary of Colchester . |
| 3 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |
| 4 | I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian ( Mr. Eadie ) , who spent many years on both sides of the Dispatch Box defending the interests of the nation and the British mining industry , pointed that out in his speech . |
| 5 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 6 | Solid , unsensational book written by a black New York sociologist who spent several years with Hispanic and black teenage cocaine dealers . |
| 7 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |