Example sentences of "[verb] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 2 | None of the old historians of this County take notice of this Chantry , not even Mr Lambarde , who lived some years in the Bishops ' Palace here . |
| 3 | John Wilson , whom I last met some years ago with his wife on a trip to the Seychelles , thanked His Grace , and paid tribute to the support and enthusiasm of his wife , Alan Smith his hardworking keeper , Peter Pask the farm manager , and his farm staff . |
| 4 | SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style . |
| 5 | But many organists have undertaken some years of an expensive musical training and still give many hours a week to practising . |
| 6 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 7 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 8 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 9 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 10 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 11 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 13 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 14 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 15 | given some years earlier , |
| 16 | I expect you know he has no love for you … your reneging on the Munich contract some years ago meant several of his singers lost work . |
| 17 | John Varnom booked the pleasure cruiser , fittingly named The Elizabethan ( and which Virgin would actually buy some years later ) , reassuring the owner that the party was for ‘ some boring German synthesiser band ’ . |
| 18 | It was decided that the British should move forward , as agreed with the French High Command some years earlier , to latch on to the extreme left wing of the French Army : at this time General Charles Lanrezac 's Fifth Army . |
| 19 | It must be admitted that Château Meloch was a great deal better some years than others , and although it was often possible to be amused by its presumption , it was equally likely to be pronounced fit only for cooking — and on one occasion its only possible use was as a substitute for vinegar . |
| 20 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 21 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 22 | Perhaps the greatest change in the Tilford Bach Festival occurred some years ago when Denys Darlow realised his aim of producing the sound most familiar to Bach himself , by introducing the London Handel Orchestra which specialises in baroque music played on authentic reproductions of baroque instruments . |
| 23 | Or , if anger is still spoiling your relationship with someone , then consider expressing your feelings directly to them , even if the incident occurred some years ago . |
| 24 | A simple procedure used some years ago by Kreinin ( 1969 ) consists of normalising intra-trade statistics . |
| 25 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 26 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 27 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 28 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 29 | As Cicourel and Kitsuse demonstrated many years ago ( 1963 ) , the choice was in fact more illusory than real . |
| 30 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |