Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 2 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 3 | Mike Watts is returning from Canada where he emigrated twenty years ago and his ‘ bit of a holiday ’ is as modest as the Columbus connection is an overstatement . |
| 4 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 5 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 6 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 7 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |