Example sentences of "year [coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 4 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 5 | Audrey Gray , a single mother of three , was quick to point out that Father Christmas would not be calling on her children this year and she had firm views on who was to blame . |