Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 3 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 4 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 5 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 6 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 7 | He 's gon na wait till the copper price zooms up again , then he 'll be back , he never did , order those aluminum rods you know last year . |
| 8 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 9 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
| 10 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
| 11 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 13 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 14 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 15 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 16 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The market is definitely thawing out from the big freeze we experienced last year , and it is thawing out from the bottom up . |
| 18 | The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year . |
| 19 | In the north of England they have New Year 's Day but they do n't in the south in England , they might do now . |
| 20 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 21 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 22 | It was stated that the 20-month-old child he killed twelve years earlier was a named woman 's ‘ illegitimate son ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Strachan said : ‘ This will definitely be the only medal I win this year . |
| 24 | But I do n't want to forget him , it 's not you forget it save your own life , you see er Irene one Wales , er she 's Greek , she 's only a young woman , she lost her husband I think two years ago and she 's already , cos you needs , delicate and people , people keep on thinking that you , you , you do n't want nobody then , you land in a mental home or stroke or , or something |
| 25 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 26 | The desire of the Cambridge Boat Club to win this year began the evening they lost last year . |
| 27 | We 're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago . |
| 28 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 29 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |
| 30 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |