Example sentences of "i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 2 | that closes round me this year . |
| 3 | You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ? |
| 4 | I just hope i t 's not going to haunt me this year because I really would n't want that . ’ |
| 5 | Several videos on less obvious techniques have also impressed me this year . |
| 6 | Those Yids , they set far more stock by this Christmas nonsense than most of us — damn' nuisance — God , I 've missed having you to do my shopping for me this year . |
| 7 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 8 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 9 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 10 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 11 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 12 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 13 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 14 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 15 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 16 | er actually who are all in front , mostly from Stanton which I represent , they have made their views known to me some years ago , er this might happen , erm I 'm very glad that you have responded now to their concerns as well as the concerns of the villages and , and this paper does mark significant erm success co-operation between a lot of people involved and for that reason I welcome it , I would ask if it becomes be prepared to make it six months instead of three months please . |
| 17 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 18 | I had a go at that did n't I one year ? |
| 19 | This result means that New Northern will compete in Division I next year . |
| 20 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 23 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 24 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 25 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 26 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 27 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 28 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 29 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |