Example sentences of "[prep] a year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year it was so hard that Chola and Mina had to hack it out with adzes . |
| 2 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 3 | If the haemoglobin remains normal after a year it should then be checked after a further year or sooner if the patient becomes symptomatic . |
| 4 | After a year she used all her wiles to coax a young man into helping her escape , and crossed the Forth at Queensferry . |
| 5 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 6 | After a year he parted from his father and set up his own practice at 24 Hardy Street , in the heart of the Liverpool docklands . |
| 7 | After a year he made the move . |
| 8 | So , if you find that after a year you still ca n't tell a sparrow from a dunnock , it will not matter . |
| 9 | During the course of a year we will : |
| 10 | For the best part of a year he presented Guntram with a very serious challenge . |
| 11 | In the course of a year it meets on about half as many days as the House of Commons and never on more than three days in a week . |
| 12 | At the end of a year it 's good to look back and to feel that you have made some progress in your spiritual life . |
| 13 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 14 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 15 | Paul 's gon na bum around for a year I reckon |
| 16 | They misled you , for a year you have known that . |
| 17 | Leave it on for a year you 'll get a bill . |
| 18 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 19 | Moreover for a year he shared a stage with one of the greatest and the best-loved English stage actors of the century . |
| 20 | Bede 's methods led him to give 680 for a year he would otherwise have thought of as 679 . |
| 21 | For a year he taught at Magdalen College School , and after ordination in 1903 became curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields and assistant chaplain at Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 22 | For a year he had neither seen her nor permitted her name to be spoken in his hearing . |
| 23 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 24 | After conversion , to ‘ subdue her body ’ , for a year she abstained ‘ from all Flesh , Wine and Beer ’ , drinking only water . |
| 25 | In one-day matches England were now just about at rock bottom ; within a year they were very much on top . |
| 26 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 27 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 28 | Within a year he died as a result of injuries inflicted by his own machinery . |
| 29 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 30 | Within a year he could provide eight spectaculars , all ingeniously flexible to fit one- to three-hour bookings . |