Example sentences of "he was [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 2 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 3 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 4 | He was jailed for five years . |
| 5 | He was jailed for 3.5 years for his part in the affair . |
| 6 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 7 | He was jailed for 10 years . |
| 8 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |
| 9 | He was jailed for two years . |
| 10 | He was jailed for two years by Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court . |
| 11 | He was jailed for 2 years . |
| 12 | He was jailed for seven years on November 30 . |
| 13 | He was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey after admitting manslaughter . |
| 14 | He was jailed for three years , as was his accomplice Bernard Lynch , a ‘ freelance ’ accountant from south London . |
| 15 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 18 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 19 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A judge in Columbus , Ohio , announced that Reynolds should receive £4.5m in lost earnings and £14m in punitive damages after he was banned for two years for allegedly failing a drugs test . |
| 22 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 23 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |
| 24 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 25 | He was suspended for two years after he tested positive for drugs when finishing second in the 1988 New York race . |
| 26 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |