Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurses , two weeks ago I met nurses that I 've met three years ago at my surgery about regrading . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 5 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | and if , you could say that you 've got last year 's opening times |
| 8 | My view is that we 've got forty years to think about it and we can surely think ahead . |
| 9 | ‘ People forget that we 've had forty years of scientific advance since the first atom bomb was dropped . |
| 10 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |