Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 2 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 3 | Several videos on less obvious techniques have also impressed me this year . |
| 4 | I was an ordinary member of the Council for that , I had done me two years Chairmanship , and here again , I was naughty really , considered naughty . |
| 5 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 6 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 7 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 9 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 10 | This has taken me four years and I reckon the Atlantic 's the one to go for.I 'm sure it 's not that difficult . |
| 11 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 12 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 14 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 15 | It 's taken me 6 years . |
| 16 | It 's taken me 24 years to go solo . |
| 17 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 18 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 19 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 20 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |