Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 2 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
| 3 | CUSTOMERS and friends of Drew Muir , Manager at Laurencekrik Branch , presented him with a painting by local artist David Johnston when he retired after 34 years ' service . |
| 4 | ALLOA and Alva Grouping staff presented a cheque to Senior Manager Alex Reid when he retired after 43 years ‘ service . |
| 5 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 6 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1929 Humphrys was appointed high commissioner ( from 1932 first British ambassador ) to the British mandated state of Iraq , where he stayed for six years . |
| 8 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |
| 9 | 8 , when , for some reason , perhaps some personal misconduct , he was dismissed ; he decamped to York , where he resided for many years . |
| 10 | In 1901 Scott moved to Bedford , where he remained for twelve years . |
| 11 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 12 | In 1947 he was appointed headmaster at St Mary 's Grammar School in Darlington , where he remained for 12 years . |
| 13 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 14 | A director of Courtaulds Textiles , he was equally well known in Courtaulds , where he worked for 25 years before the textiles demerger in 1990 . |
| 15 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |