Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] [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 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 5 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 6 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 12 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 13 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |
| 14 | Christmas no new year 's eve we went to a party . |
| 15 | ‘ The generous responses by so many people was amazing and by New Year 's Eve we had raised £4,181 , ’ said Joan . |
| 16 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 17 | On New Year 's Eve they made |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 20 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 21 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 22 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 23 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 24 | Normally I am a good sleeper , but that New Year 's Night I lay awake for hours , with cold , sexual fantasy or worry . |
| 25 | In last year 's championship they managed a single draw and finished last . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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% . |
| 30 | Because , after all , what happens that last year 's model it wears , y y , you 're a bit fed up with it ! |