Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 2 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 3 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 4 | I shall be obliged to you if you will be so good as to let the bearer have my copy of the last year 's Transactions , in which you will greatly oblige , Sir , your most humble servant , Philip Miller . |
| 5 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 6 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 7 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 8 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Thanks to the committee members for all their help over the last year and particularly to Graham Espin for many years of enthusiastic effort with the committee , to Ross Hamilton our treasurer for all his hard work , to Mrs Sheila Peterson for her abilities as vice chairman and particularly her talent with the children at our functions , to Miss Netta Gibling who , as ever , provides continuity and expertise as secretary . |
| 10 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 11 | This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling . |
| 12 | The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century . |
| 13 | The four European factories must show their efficiency over the next year , especially by selling their products to clients outside of IBM , Winkelmann said . |
| 14 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 15 | Answer guide : Because they will change their form in the next year , in the former case to cash and in the latter normally to services . |
| 16 | Their income and their finance for the last year ? |
| 17 | It 's WBO super-middleweight champion Eubank 's ninth world title fight in just 22 months — and there 's to be no let-up in his quest to earn the money that can give him retirement in the next year . |
| 18 | I 'm a drunk Robina , a free Robina , a girl who can stop being called bloody Robina — they even used to call me Banko in the third year : Robin , robbing banks , Banko ! |
| 19 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 20 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 21 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 22 | Shortly before his death in the next year , Henry III granted to his queen , Eleanor , the custody ‘ of the castle and forest of Windsor and the seven hundreds , and the towns of Old Windsor , Bray and Kempton , during pleasure ’ , provided that she accounted at the Exchequer as Nicholas de Yattendon , the previous constable and warden , had done . |
| 23 | As we reach the end of 1993 , and before we start on the challenges which the new year will bring , I want to express my thanks and appreciation to you , as members of our Company for your contribution to our business over the last year . |
| 24 | Typical of such questions is , ‘ Compared with other people of your age how do you rate your health in the last year ? ’ . |
| 25 | remember that it is up to you what you include on your schedule The more accurately you can assess your expenditure for the next year , the easier it should prove to keep on top of your finances . |
| 26 | On our retreat in the last year of school , a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior 's throne . |