Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] year [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 2 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 3 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 4 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 5 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 6 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
| 7 | In the next year he had custody of Rochester Castle . |
| 8 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 9 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 10 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 11 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 12 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |