Example sentences of "he [verb] been [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 2 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 3 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 4 | He had been fourteen years old . |
| 5 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 6 | He had been last year 's judge and immediately he said he 'd come to the prize presentation on the evening of the 19th and judge the judge 's choice . |
| 7 | On that occasion he had been ten years old As children between the wars , Yanto and his friends spent most of their Summers out in the estuary between tides . |
| 8 | He had been ten years old at the time of Herbert 's wedding ; his name was Max Beerbohm ; the story is recounted in Lord David Cecil 's Max , A Biography ; the date was 1882 , and sillabub , added Max , was then his favourite dish . |
| 9 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |