Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The secret policeman was back in uniform , a plain copper on the beat , back where he had started fifteen years before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The nurses , two weeks ago I met nurses that I 've met three years ago at my surgery about regrading . |
| 5 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 6 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 7 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 8 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 9 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 12 | and if , you could say that you 've got last year 's opening times |
| 13 | My view is that we 've got forty years to think about it and we can surely think ahead . |
| 14 | ‘ People forget that we 've had forty years of scientific advance since the first atom bomb was dropped . |
| 15 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 16 | Are you optimistic that erm people will perceive the services under this budget as better than they 've had last year , or worse ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 24 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 25 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 26 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 27 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 28 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |