Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college
2 Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college .
3 ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’
4 Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her .
5 This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 .
6 To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate .
7 time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf .
8 Linebacker Gary Plummer said : ‘ We have n't given the fans a heck of a lot to cheer in the seven years I 've been here .
9 The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 .
10 David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group :
11 He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper .
12 I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this .
13 It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm .
14 Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds .
15 Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade .
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