Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 3 | days ten eleven twelve , th thirteen , twelve days I might have taken this year already . |
| 4 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 5 | At the end of March I will have completed six years . |
| 6 | You must have served five years [ two after membership ] in a legal office and be 25 years of age before you become eligible to become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives . |
| 7 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 8 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 9 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 10 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We should have gone metric years ago . ’ |
| 12 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 13 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 14 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 15 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 17 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 18 | It should have read 300 years . |
| 19 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 20 | Another fine eight-part composition , the motet ‘ Super flumina Babylonis ’ , was in 1583 sent by de Monte to William Byrd whom he must have met thirty years earlier during his visit to England as a member of Philip II 's chapel . |
| 21 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |
| 22 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 23 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 24 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 25 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 26 | It would have needed two years , rather than two months , for the government to have made the changes necessary for them to become re-electable . ’ |
| 27 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 28 | So , if you buy a yearling fish it will have consumed three years ' pellet rations and , hopefully , survived three merry-go-rounds of hazards . |
| 29 | This is a race ; in Europe it will have taken 35 years from the signing of the Treaty of Rome to attain the European Community 's planned single market in 1992 . |
| 30 | He will have spent long years mastering this art . |