Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] three 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 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 3 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 4 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 7 | It took him three years . |
| 8 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 9 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 10 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |
| 11 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 12 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |