Example sentences of "[verb] for twenty year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , Cover Master , it 's very simple , say you want , yeah , it 's a hundred thousand arranged for twenty years , and then later on . |
| 2 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 3 | He gave his consent to the marriage and Llewellyn and Rachael lived for twenty years in Drunkeen , one of the Saunderson family homes . |
| 4 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 5 | But he made the studio ( which he used for twenty years ) simple and plain , matching a portrait style in which , in his own words , ‘ character rather than flattery was the dominant note . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have not prayed for twenty years , ’ he told Elliott , ‘ and on Sundays I plan how to kill Portuguese . ’ |
| 7 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 8 | The sacrifice of Tiutiunnyk and his men , because sacrifice was how it was seen in Bazar , lingered for twenty years as a whispered obsession in the minds of the townspeople . |
| 9 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 10 | He was , as her mother had said for twenty years , the laziest codder God ever put breath into , but Claire loved him , and he loved her as if she were his own . |
| 11 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 12 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 13 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 15 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 16 | The Robbins ‘ principle ’ , not to be seriously challenged for twenty years , was a simple one : every qualified school-leaver ( qualified , that is , in terms of his A-level passes ) who wished to enter higher education was entitled to a place . |
| 17 | He served for twenty years as vice-chairman of the National Library of Scotland . |
| 18 | About this time a detailed correspondence , lasting for twenty years , started between Sloane and Ray . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 20 | And erm then after erm I had done my training as nun , I did teacher training , and I taught for twenty years , before becoming a social worker . |
| 21 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 22 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 23 | A rumbling dispute about changes to working conditions sparked an ill-temperered row in a research facility marked for twenty years of good industrial relations . |
| 24 | You said you worked for twenty years about , |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |
| 26 | In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more . |
| 27 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
| 28 | Not like it is now ; it 's not rained for twenty years . ’ |
| 29 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 30 | Yasu , his grandson , succeeded in 1680 and reigned for twenty years , the last effective Emperor at Gondar . |