Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lived a year without you , ’ she snapped back , swishing her feet in the water . |
| 2 | The improvement in trading which I reported a year ago rapidly evaporated as recession regained its grip in the United Kingdom and gained momentum in the important Continental Europe and Japanese markets which themselves account for about one half of the sales of our United Kingdom businesses . |
| 3 | As I mentioned a year ago , however , the then current sales of advertising space and forward orders for 1992 were seriously down , a position which persisted throughout the year . |
| 4 | I 've got four CSEs and I spent a year on day release , learning about making wreaths and business management . |
| 5 | I spent a year and a half in a kibbutz then joined the English army for five years . |
| 6 | I spent a year living in Italy and I fell in love with the rustic feel and lifestyle . |
| 7 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 8 | I spent a year working in a hospital as an auxiliary nurse between college and university . |
| 9 | But I spent a year in that shadowland . |
| 10 | I spent the years from 1983 to 1988 as a member of the National Council on the Arts , the NEA 's advisory board ; it was the Council 's task to vote on every grant , though in the end the law required the final decision in each case to be made by the Chairman . |
| 11 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 12 | I warned a year ago that it would not be until 1992 that substantially better results would be achieved . |
| 13 | Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end . |
| 14 | I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled . |
| 15 | I did a year 's course , I thought it would get me somewhere . " |
| 16 | I did er geriatrics obstetrics and gynaecology , psychiatry and casualty , and then I did a year as a G P trainee . |
| 17 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 18 | But not the Indians with whom I had a year . |
| 19 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 20 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 21 | Mrs Goreng had been in Danu ten months , every one of which seemed a year to her . |
| 22 | It was a method which reckoned the year from the movable feast of Easter , and was introduced by the French king Philip Augustus ( 1180–1223 ) . |
| 23 | These were first deployed to the Gulf 3 weeks before Operation Desert Storm , the war which started a year ago this Friday . |
| 24 | Any further increase could push Footsie , which started the year at 1,782.8 , below 2,000 . |
| 25 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |
| 26 | Less surprisingly , a certain England football captain took careful note of a profile which appeared a year or two back . |
| 27 | Since the market for this metal is dominated by the automotive industry there was an inevitable decline in price which ended the year at $1,350 per ounce , over 55% down from the year 's high point . |
| 28 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 29 | Oh yes there would be you 'd a year you would be supposed to be not very much . |
| 30 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |