Example sentences of "[adj] years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some years ago you kindly offered to take Hartley Green , an elder Brother of George into your Factory , which he declined , having other views . |
| 32 | Some years ago you published articles and follow-up correspondence on the problems of the individual inventor . |
| 33 | Some years ago he gave a sequence of exciting and idiosyncratic lectures on physics to students at Caltech . |
| 34 | Some years ago she had gone to stud , with her colt foal at foot , to be served by a stallion who had been very successful on the race track . |
| 35 | I do n't know whether I told you … but some years ago she was diagnosed as having … polyneuritis … ’ |
| 36 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 37 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 38 | Julia is like that too , so that some years later I asked Elizabeth if she herself looked at the world in that way . |
| 39 | Some years later it appeared from a decision in the Chancery Division that the tolls had been unlawfully demanded and the plaintiff sued for their recovery . |
| 40 | Some years later he and Dudek parted company ; the former being too much the evangelist-propagandist for the ‘ pure ’ scholar . |
| 41 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 42 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 43 | Some years later he commented on this to Minton who gave an insight into their insouciance : draw in the morning , when fresh , he advised , so that you can enjoy yourself in the afternoon . |
| 44 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 45 | Some years later he took a disciple named Chen Chia Kou and taught him everything he knew . |
| 46 | Some years later he met Mr Parkinson again during a campaign meeting for the Penrith and Borders constituency . |
| 47 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
| 48 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 49 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 50 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
| 51 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 52 | For some years now he had shared the sheep herding with his Uncle George : the latter had never been particularly strong and now it was obvious that he was very ill . |
| 53 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 54 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 55 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
| 56 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
| 57 | Forty-five years later he 's returned to his roots , with a retrospective display of his favourite surrealist paintings . |
| 58 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 59 | But as soon as the n the kid Nicky hits teenage years then he wants to be called Nick , whereas if the girl 's been christened Nicola and she 's called Nicky through her childhood , when she hits teens she 's still called Nicky . |
| 60 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |