Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 2 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 3 | It seemed ominous that the hotel was in Glasgow 's George Square , and we had met six-and-a-half years previously in George Square in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 5 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 6 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 7 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |