Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 2 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 3 | The secret policeman was back in uniform , a plain copper on the beat , back where he had started fifteen years before . |
| 4 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 5 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 6 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 7 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 8 | He was unshaven , and his stomach was beginning to protrude over his belt , but there were still traces of the fine , athletic figure and well-cut features that she had married seven years ago . |
| 9 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 10 | She suspected that something had happened many years ago between her parents , something strange and secretive that had left its mark on them both . |
| 11 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 12 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 13 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 14 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 15 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 16 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 17 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 18 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 19 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 20 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 21 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 22 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 23 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 24 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 25 | It seemed ominous that the hotel was in Glasgow 's George Square , and we had met six-and-a-half years previously in George Square in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 27 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 28 | It took the form of granting women — provided they had attained thirty years of age , the right to vote in a parliamentary election ; also all men of twenty-one years of age . |
| 29 | CRUMLIN Road jail escaper Joe Doherty should have had the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before a decision was taken to delay a review of his sentence until he had served 10 years in Northern Ireland , a court has heard . |
| 30 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |