Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 2 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 3 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 4 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 5 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 6 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 7 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |