Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | we 'll certainly be needing them this year , cos the garden 's bare . |
| 32 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 33 | Yes , my eight year old is certainly beginning to show signs of stress , er it 's an unsettling situation for him , and he 's old enough to understand , and er we 've had tears and you know . |
| 34 | My eleven year old pony hates being groomed winter and summer . |
| 35 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 36 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 37 | O'Toole is the Oscars ' all-time loser with seven nominations and no wins — Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) , Becket ( 1964 ) , The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ) , Goodbye , Mr Chips ( 1969 ) , The Ruling Class ( 1972 ) , The Stunt Man ( 1980 ) and My Favourite Year ( 1982 ) . |
| 38 | Their U-24s knew too much for my U-16 year olds , ’ said Hill . |
| 39 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
| 40 | Of course the younger user is unlikely to continually switch between the three , but continuity of product and of interface is still very important — my six year old expects to find certain controls linked to certain keys — how do you answer the question ‘ why does n't this key to the same as in the other Fun School ones ? ? ? ’ . |
| 41 | My hu , my six year old ran away , but |
| 42 | I was the only Arsenal supporter in my entire year at school . |
| 43 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 45 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 46 | Everything about it has helped me to grapple with the intricacies of machine knitting in this , my second year . |
| 47 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 48 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 49 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 50 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 51 | In my second year matters came to a head . |
| 52 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 53 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 54 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 55 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 56 | It 's part of my second year , so yeah I know . |
| 57 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 58 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 59 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 60 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |