Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] year at " in BNC.
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| 1 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 2 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 3 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 4 | I spent several years at the Institute before returning to the industry . |
| 5 | As I said last year at the Whitbread and Company conference on employee volunteering . |
| 6 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 7 | Also at Duxford is the Old Flying Machine Company 's Hunter F. Mk. 6A G-BUEZ , which spent many years at the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough and Boscombe Down as XF375 before being retired as an instructional airframe at Cranwell in 1982 . |
| 8 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 9 | But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury . |
| 10 | The appeal was set up by her friend , Lady Romsey in memory of her daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 11 | The appeal was started by Prince Charles ' cousin Lord Romsey and his wife Penny in memory of their daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 12 | The timing of notices was determined by the fact that all tenants will be protected by the Landlord and Tenant ( Licensed Premises ) Act 1990 by July 1992 as a result of the legislation that we enacted last year at the tenants ' request . |
| 13 | Well , I do n't know we went , it depends on the weather I mean , we went last year at |
| 14 | In addition to court rolls the family historian may come across rentals which give the names of tenants and the rents that they paid each year at Ladyday ( 25 March ) and Michaelmas ( 29 September ) . |
| 15 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 16 | No there are n't , I had it done last year at erm , oh what 's it called , , Sidcup . |
| 17 | He spent four years at a Liverpool shipping house and then in 1861 obtained a clerical post at Hutchinson 's alkali works in Widnes . |
| 18 | Aged thirteen , he spent two years at a Cardiff school , where he learned English , and then trained as an electrician . |
| 19 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 20 | He spent three years at Charing Cross Hospital School of Nursing before qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1983 . |
| 21 | After more exposure in the West End , he spent three years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , playing 12 large Shakespeare roles with distinction . |
| 22 | Before joining P&O he spent 31 years at sea and ashore with Union Castle Line . |
| 23 | Born in Singapore thirty-one years ago , with a dash of French blood in his Asian veins , brought up on Hawaii , he did two years at the University of Hawaii , but concentrated on attending some of the tougher colleges of the North Shore before finally graduating from Pipeline and Sunset to take his PhD at Waimea in the early eighties . |
| 24 | He had nine years at Leeds , where his children grew up and where he became a specialist in building matters and worked closely with architects on the planning of major buildings . |
| 25 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |