Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought her not easily distinguishable from the Berlin women , with their detestable white felt bowler hats , who still looked much as George Grosz had drawn them thirty-five years ago . |
| 2 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 3 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 4 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 5 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |
| 6 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 8 | Ward had bought it four years earlier with part of the advance on one of his books . |
| 9 | The village is deserted , and ominously near a cemetery containing the graves of 300 French soldiers killed defending it ten years before . |