Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 2 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 3 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 4 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 5 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 6 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 7 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 8 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 9 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 10 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 11 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 12 | A self-portrait from the period has the same decided , serene expression as one he had painted 18 years earlier , but his eyes and hair are engulfed in flames , his face is distorted . |
| 13 | Previously he had been working as Senior Designer with Firth Carpets with whom he had gained eleven years experience . |
| 14 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 15 | In 1926 , for instance , he returned to Westermarck ( whom he had read eleven years before ) attacking his ideas that the origin and development of the ideas of good and evil were caused merely by economic , genetic , and hygienic factors . |
| 16 | I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain . |