Example sentences of "[adj] year [unc] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Farm seem to be this year 's Band You Love To Hate , but their version of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ? ’ is by no means the throwaway novelty it has been presented as being . |
| 2 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |
| 3 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 4 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 5 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 6 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 7 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 8 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 9 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 10 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 11 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 12 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 13 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 14 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |
| 15 | Christmas no new year 's eve we went to a party . |
| 16 | ‘ The generous responses by so many people was amazing and by New Year 's Eve we had raised £4,181 , ’ said Joan . |
| 17 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 18 | On New Year 's Eve they made |
| 19 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 20 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 21 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 22 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 23 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 24 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 25 | Normally I am a good sleeper , but that New Year 's Night I lay awake for hours , with cold , sexual fantasy or worry . |
| 26 | In last year 's championship they managed a single draw and finished last . |
| 27 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 28 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 29 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |
| 30 | In last year 's statement I commented upon the challenging economic conditions which resulted from a base interest rate of 14.0% and inflation at 10.9% . |