Example sentences of "was [verb] for seven year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 2 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 3 | One of his proudest moments came when he was appointed provost of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk , a position he was to hold for seven years , He was the town 's last official provost before regionalisation . |
| 4 | This terminated in 1940 , but the right to purchase was extended for seven years until 1947 , when Fleetwood requested a further three-year extension , which was opposed by Blackpool . |
| 5 | Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 6 | Raymond Oxborough , 30 , of Headingley , Leeds , was jailed for seven years in September for the rape and manslaughter of Kathleen Lillyman , 61 , in March last year . |
| 7 | He was jailed for seven years on November 30 . |
| 8 | A WINDOW cleaner was jailed for seven years yesterday for raping one of his customers . |
| 9 | Mr Ride , 33 , of Walthamstow , east London , was jailed for seven years for entering Iraqi territory this summer . |
| 10 | He was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey after admitting manslaughter . |
| 11 | A RAPIST was jailed for seven years yesterday for causing the death of a pensioner . |
| 12 | Martin Houston from South Link in Andersontown who was jailed for seven years last October for a horrendous catalogue of crimes against young boys will be eligible for home leave in just six months time . |
| 13 | He too was jailed for seven years . |
| 14 | A BANK robber who claimed his £2,600 haul had been stolen from woods where he had hidden the money was jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 15 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |
| 16 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 17 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 18 | Tin U , former chair of the NLD , was imprisoned for seven years on Feb. 21 . |