Example sentences of "[vb past] do [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 2 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 3 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 4 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 5 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 6 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 7 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 8 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 9 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 10 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 11 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 12 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 13 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 14 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 15 | In 1939 many men and women went , as others had done 25 years before , to serve in the Army , the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force . |
| 16 | Characteristically , however , Chapman was to learn from the defeat , just as he had done twenty years before after Northampton 's defeat by Norwich . |
| 17 | And Magellan — just as Balboa had done seven years before — proudly unfurled the flag of Castile . |
| 18 | There 's little chance of the IFA blanking the game out , as they attempted to do several years ago when a United match interfered with the Glentoran v Steaua Bucharest tie . |