Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , like most other women , I wasted years of my teens and twenties feeling I would be happier if I was thinner . |
| 2 | Little trick I learnt years |
| 3 | Hendrix was my number one influence , but I spent years playing Led Zeppelin covers in a band . |
| 4 | I spent years looking for the answer , and what I found was somewhat unexpected . |
| 5 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 6 | Portability I solved years ago with a Tandy 102 , a tiny , bounce-it-off-the concrete newspaperperson 's computer which came complete with built-in programmes , a modem for firing stories down phone lines and virtually no memory . |
| 7 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 8 | I remember an all-black room I saw years ago which has always stuck in my mind : black velvet walls , black carpet , ebony table and chairs , black lacquer side table . |
| 9 | I sometimes use sketches I did years ago , they still can inspire and start a train of thought . |
| 10 | I had years of hell there . ’ |
| 11 | I had years ahead of me . |
| 12 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 13 | Oh this is the one I had years ago this one , I 've never used it . |
| 14 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
| 15 | A great adventure to two remarkable elderly women friends who met years ago teaching and then taught at a school for ‘ maddies and baddies ’ in Argyll funded by Strathclyde Region and then they developed and ran a world renowned restaurant on the Island of Luing . |
| 16 | Others , who came year after year , went north to the sheep sales for leftovers , driving the bleating creatures south to be skinned and boiled down . |
| 17 | Before the Lords , she spent years as a Euo MP and before that , of course , she was one of the liveliest Labour people in the House of Commons , a member of Harold Wilson 's Cabinet and one-time Minister of Transporteven though she could not drive ! |
| 18 | Jimmy James is a restaurateur and running enthusiast who spent years in Britain . |
| 19 | But the cracks and contradictions were there , all too evident to men like Andrei Amalrik , the historian and playwright who spent years in prison and Siberian exile . |
| 20 | His eyebrows reach for the ceiling and he actually attempts to answer the question , as only somebody who spent years in psychotherapy would . |
| 21 | Sad stories are told of people who spent years working on a language and who lost all those years in one night when their house burnt down . |
| 22 | ‘ She died years ago . ’ |
| 23 | She looked years younger . |
| 24 | It contains and excellent article about Pat Keen and her classes , a splendid photo of Pat herself and the observation — accurate indeed — that she looked years younger than her age . |
| 25 | I 'm not the person you knew years ago . |
| 26 | I think you did years ago , that time , the only once you had the doctor . |
| 27 | He gave the impression of being a high-up executive who had years of experience in advising investors . |
| 28 | She said years of research had effectively been ‘ poured down the drain ’ . |
| 29 | Cleese , who underwent years of psychotherapy , has always leaned on strong American women including first wife Connie Booth and spouse number two , film director Barbara Trentham . |
| 30 | It was Mrs Thatcher 's first since she ended years of political and medical speculation by making the shock revelation in the Sunday Correspondent that she is , after all , human . |