Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 2 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 3 | Another lawyer involved in the murder case , to whom I spoke last year , described her as ‘ a woman obsessed by family names , titles , and money ’ . |
| 4 | I I mean last year |
| 5 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 6 | One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not . |
| 7 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 8 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 9 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 10 | One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago . |
| 11 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 12 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 13 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 14 | Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea . |
| 15 | ‘ We plan to use the cash proceeds to build up our environmental service business in the US particularly to expand our $42m Tropical Plant Rental business which we acquired last year , ’ said Mr Thompson . |
| 16 | Our immediate agenda must be the talks on which we embarked last year . |
| 17 | one of the reasons which we lacked last year was er , was a , was a fast , you know , opening bowler . |
| 18 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue . |
| 20 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 21 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 22 | In a fashionable area now known as Brompton Cross ( just a short walk from Harrods , Joseph and The Conran Shop ) , Linda and Neville Codling run Eastern Accents which they founded nine years ago on their return from the Far East . |
| 23 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 25 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 26 | From 1938 to 1940 he was in England ; he returned to New Zealand in 1940 , working at various jobs until 1942 , when he joined the NZRAF , in which he spent three years . |
| 27 | For McOwan he played Justin O'Connell in Waste in 1937 , the same Granville-Barker play to which he returned 48 years later , as Russell Blackborough , with the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 28 | Still larger than his Jamaican Landscape was the Jamaican Village which he sent that year to the Royal Academy 's summer exhibition . |
| 29 | He was appointed CBE in 1951 , the year in which he began twelve years as the first president of the SSI . |
| 30 | The novel The Distant Lands , which he began twenty years later , abandoned , then took up again and finished in 1987 — a 52-year gestation ! — is dedicated ‘ to the memory of my mother , daughter of the South ’ . |