Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 2 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
| 3 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 4 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 5 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 6 | You done it last year did n't you ? |
| 7 | The other thing is I mean , erm , the , the Trone did it a couple of years ago , they have n't done it this year they |
| 8 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 9 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 10 | I had visited it last year out of curiosity . |
| 11 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 12 | And I 've noticed it this year more markedly than ever before , a certain resignation to unemployment when they leave school . |
| 13 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 14 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 15 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
| 16 | He 's had it two years , but |
| 17 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 18 | and I 've had it three year . |
| 19 | I 've had it three years . |
| 20 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 21 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |
| 22 | Ward had bought it four years earlier with part of the advance on one of his books . |
| 23 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 24 | It does n't , they just have n't requested it this year . |
| 25 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |
| 26 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 27 | Happily there was no quick cash-in when ROY ORBISON died just before Christmas 1988 , and his widow Barbara has left it four years before releasing his posthumous album KING OF HEARTS ( Virgin ) . |
| 28 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 29 | They have n't mentioned it this year , have they ? |
| 30 | Some years ago it was handed to the chaplain of the Chelsea Pensioners at a funeral , but the clergyman said he had read it many years before . |