Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 2 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 3 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |
| 4 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 5 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 6 | With the move to the new system , we 're abolishing that subsidy , but we 're doing it in two goes : 50% of it this year and all of it will go next year . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race . |
| 8 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 9 | Black Shandy failed but GBS made a tidy living selling nuts and snacks until PTGI decided to develop a closer trading relationship with it last year and to manage more directly the retail distribution of the FES brand . |
| 10 | Well I was sa I 'm saying that 's what I did with it last year for my birthday . |
| 11 | And er I got roped into it one year because I had to stop in for something or other that I Course I had n't done but |
| 12 | Bob Church , England 's Home International team manager who organised the event , said : ‘ I talked myself into it last year at the world championships in New Zealand . |
| 13 | This promised visit to the school , mused Hank , would be his father 's first since he had graduated from it twenty-five years earlier . |
| 14 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 15 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 16 | I see it all the time from the window , inspect it every day , work in it all year round , and relax there in summer ; it is an essential part of my immediate environment . |
| 17 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 18 | Erm no it 's more likely to be a calendar month that she works on and fortunately February has four weeks in it this year for where our pay day is so I would be putting it in sort of like Feb first . |
| 19 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 20 | Stan Johnston it 's like a disease … they look forward to it all year |
| 21 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 22 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 23 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 24 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be on it next year . |
| 26 | It was a hundred and fifty thousand pounds last year , a hundred fifty po thousand this year and whether he will put the breaks on it next year cos he needs the money , I do n't know . |
| 27 | I mean I lost weight on it last year . |
| 28 | You can start on it this year if you like Mike ! |
| 29 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , we paid thirty eight pound off it last year . |