Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 5 | ‘ He tried for eight years ! ’ he rasped . |
| 6 | As a natural artist , he became a successful portrait painter a cartoonist for a Liverpool journal and art master at a number of Liverpool schools before embarking upon a career as missioner which he pursued for thirty years until his retirement in 1931 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 9 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 10 | He claims that he plotted for ten years to marry her . |
| 11 | ’ He paid for some years and then ceased payment . |
| 12 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 13 | The certificate shows that he served for 7 years 71 days as a private ; 2 years 310 days as a corporal ; and 10 years 349 days in the rank of sergeant . |
| 14 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 15 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 16 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 17 | He served for many years as examiner for the London water supply and held strong views on sewage purification . |
| 18 | He served for many years on the boards of the Animal Diseases Research Organisation and the College of Agriculture . |
| 19 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 20 | He served for twenty years as vice-chairman of the National Library of Scotland . |
| 21 | The internationalism of architecture particularly interested him , for as well as being considered as the founder of the Institute of Architects , he served for twenty-four years as its Honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence . |
| 22 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 23 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 24 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 25 | He taught for ten years before moving into industry and working his way up to the post of project manager for a major construction company . |
| 26 | He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration . |
| 27 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 28 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 29 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 30 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |