Example sentences of "[verb] i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 2 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 3 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 4 | Several videos on less obvious techniques have also impressed me this year . |
| 5 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 6 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 7 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 8 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 9 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 10 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 12 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 13 | Well he told me last year he 'd applied . |
| 14 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 15 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
| 16 | I was an ordinary member of the Council for that , I had done me two years Chairmanship , and here again , I was naughty really , considered naughty . |
| 17 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 18 | You could well give me ten years . ’ |
| 19 | Did you see me last year ? |
| 20 | Will you remember me next year ? |
| 21 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 22 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 23 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 24 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 26 | Yeah , yeah , I know , well my daughter in law , was practically down on the phone kissing me last year when I said look Myrie , would n't you like it this year if I did n't come to you , you know , she 's done Christmas 's for me , year in year out |
| 27 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 28 | It will take me bleeding years to reach my goal |
| 29 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 30 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |