Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 2 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 3 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 4 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 5 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 6 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 7 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 8 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 9 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 12 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 14 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 15 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 16 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 17 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 18 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 19 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 20 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 21 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 22 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
| 23 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 24 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 25 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 26 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 27 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 28 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 29 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 30 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |