Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | I warned a year ago that it would not be until 1992 that substantially better results would be achieved . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled . |
| 14 | I did a year 's course , I thought it would get me somewhere . " |
| 15 | I did er geriatrics obstetrics and gynaecology , psychiatry and casualty , and then I did a year as a G P trainee . |
| 16 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 17 | But not the Indians with whom I had a year . |
| 18 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 19 | Mrs Goreng had been in Danu ten months , every one of which seemed a year to her . |
| 20 | These were first deployed to the Gulf 3 weeks before Operation Desert Storm , the war which started a year ago this Friday . |
| 21 | Less surprisingly , a certain England football captain took careful note of a profile which appeared a year or two back . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh yes there would be you 'd a year you would be supposed to be not very much . |
| 24 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |
| 25 | It is her first job since leaving her studies during which she spent a year at the Headquarters of John Menzies as part of her four year course . |
| 26 | Police had continually opposed bail applications by Tindell who spent a year in custody . |
| 27 | Primo Levi , who spent a year in Auschwitz , reported widespread dreaming of food among the inmates : One can hear the sleepers breathing and snoring ; some groan and speak . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've learned a lot since Belfast , ’ said Liubinskas who spent a year as assistant manager of AC Milan , favourites to win the European Cup with a victory over Marseille , the multi-talented French side which eliminated Glentoran in the first round . |
| 29 | The Sicilian pensioner , whose identity is being kept secret , was inseminated using the frozen sperm of her husband , who died a year ago , and a donated egg . |
| 30 | The same spirit produced the recent publication of a posthumous work by a 35-year-old French writer , Gilles Barbedette , who died a year ago in Paris before he could correct the proofs . |