Example sentences of "[adj] year of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 2 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 3 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 4 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 5 | This Indenture made ye twenty fourth day of February and in ye Eleventh year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne of England Scotland France and Ireland Queen Defender of ye Faith etc . |
| 6 | Two more years of it then well You see as long as my wife had a career - it was only because of the little one . |
| 7 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 8 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 9 | That 's right , yeah , cos I mean he 's , he 's certainly sort of , even though he 's been sort of prisoner , I mean , he 's seen what 's going on and , and he 's had what five years of it ? |
| 10 | She held on to twenty years of him . |
| 11 | ‘ Thirty years of it . |
| 12 | She complains bitterly about Mr Smith saying that he is ‘ a lazy , good-for-nothing drunk ’ whose first wife ‘ had the best years of him ’ . |
| 13 | She complains bitterly about Mr Smith saying that he is ‘ a lazy , good-for-nothing drunk ’ whose first wife ‘ had the best years of him ’ . |
| 14 | Forty-three whole years of it now . |
| 15 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 16 | The last year of it . |
| 17 | but David has decided to involve himself now , in the last year of it , the last time of his year |