Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 2 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 3 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 4 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 5 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 6 | We are delighted that Ibstock joined us this year . |
| 7 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 8 | Frank bought it last year |
| 9 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 10 | A letter requesting his attendance on Monday reaches him two years afterwards . |
| 11 | ‘ It is because we need your brilliant white nose to help us each year to deliver presents . |
| 12 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 13 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 14 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 15 | He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden . |
| 16 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 17 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah , I know , well my daughter in law , was practically down on the phone kissing me last year when I said look Myrie , would n't you like it this year if I did n't come to you , you know , she 's done Christmas 's for me , year in year out |
| 19 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 20 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 21 | Harry bought it last year to instigate an eighteen-month ground-up rebuild by a dedicated team of experienced Fouga engineers . |
| 22 | Of course now they 're recalling the fact that Tweed 's wife left him several years ago for a Greek shipping magnate , that he has n't had a lot to do with women since … ’ |
| 23 | We would be most encouraged by your efforts to join us this year — whether in wheelchair , pushchair or on foot ! |
| 24 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
| 25 | ‘ David Lodge saw him last year in The Entertainer and said he was wonderful . |
| 26 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 27 | BR closed it last year . |
| 28 | Indeed , there must be serious doubts about the decision to hold them this year . |
| 29 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 30 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |