Example sentences of "in [adj] year [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 2 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 3 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 4 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 5 | As in previous years we shall conduct a nationwide advertising campaign in the early autumn to encourage people to complete and return the electoral registration form . |
| 6 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 7 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 8 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 9 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 10 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 11 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 12 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 13 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 14 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 15 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 16 | ‘ In past years I could have authorized it , ’ Potter says . |
| 17 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |