Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 2 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 3 | The owners of Rowlands Agricultural Contractors says Lord Beaverbrook employed them three months ago , and a bill for four hundred pounds is still unpaid . |
| 4 | Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago . |
| 5 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 6 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 7 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 8 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 9 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 10 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 11 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 12 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 13 | ‘ I asked the son how he knew how much was stolen and he said he last counted it 12 months ago . ’ |
| 14 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |
| 15 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 16 | ‘ When we were setting up our flagship London/Glasgow service , it took us seven months of negotiation with BR to get an acceptable time slot , ’ he claimed . |
| 17 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 19 | Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each . |
| 20 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |
| 21 | , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , . |
| 22 | ‘ I carry in my pocket a bit of a bullet that missed me two months ago . |