Example sentences of "[verb] for six year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 2 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 3 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |
| 4 | The son of a drunken soldier lived for six years with his grandmother in one room . |
| 5 | The promotion means farewell to the Northern League middle , in which Winter has officiated for six years . |
| 6 | He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years . |
| 7 | A 45 year old woman with a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease was referred with left sided chest pain , which she had had for six years . |
| 8 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 9 | Pat served for six years on the Executive Committee ; she has also been responsible for arranging the flowers at many important functions . |
| 10 | The imprisonment was , in fact , to last for six years , a period which Louis-Napoleon later called his ‘ university years ’ , and which he put to good use by both studying and publishing . |
| 11 | After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse . |
| 12 | Baroness Wootton 's fears were in fact well grounded for six years later IT were convicted of ‘ conspiracy ’ when they published a list of ‘ contact ’ advertisements for homosexuals . |
| 13 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 14 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 15 | The court was told that Mrs Wilks , of Warndon , Worcester , had trained for six years with the Red Cross . |
| 16 | Johnson reigned for six years , Louis for eleven . |
| 17 | The right to reimbursement is subject to the Limitation Act and thus lasts for six years from the date of payment . |
| 18 | Actress dies : Actress Alexis Smith , who played opposite Clark Gable and Errol Flynn , and appeared for six years in TV soap Dallas , has died in Los Angeles , aged 72 . |
| 19 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 20 | Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal . |
| 21 | But the company and police trapped Portuguese-born Antonio Quintas , 37 , a waiter , of Victoria Road , Portslade , East Sussex , who admitted blackmail and was jailed for six years . |
| 22 | A JILTED lover who drugged a young mother , tortured her with an electric shock gun and raped her in front of her children was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 23 | He was eventually arrested and jailed for six years in 1983 . |
| 24 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 25 | A man who admitted twice raping his 15-year-old daughter and indecently assaulting her teenage friend was jailed for six years . |
| 26 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 27 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 28 | The prosection claims they tampered with a statement in a fraud case five years ago which led to a man being jailed for six years . |
| 29 | Michael Lowther was jailed for six years and a further year for being in breach of a probation order . |
| 30 | Muise was jailed for six years . |