Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 2 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 3 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 4 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 5 | Among the initiatives which we have undertaken this year , is the establishment of a working party under the Chairmanship of Lord Nathan , to make recommendations on developing and maintaining high standards of effectiveness and efficiency within the sector . |
| 6 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 7 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 8 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 9 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 10 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 11 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 12 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |
| 13 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 14 | And that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 15 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 16 | I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain . |
| 17 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 18 | From what he has seen this year , he also believes the English game is rather stereotyped . |