Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 2 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 3 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 4 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 5 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 6 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 7 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 8 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 9 | Well he told me last year he 'd applied . |
| 10 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 11 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 12 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 14 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 15 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 17 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 18 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 19 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 21 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 22 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 23 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 24 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |