Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was stated that the 20-month-old child he killed twelve years earlier was a named woman 's ‘ illegitimate son ’ . |
| 5 | The Sonata for violin and chamber orchestra is Schnittke 's 1967 orchestration of the First Violin Sonata he composed four years earlier . |
| 6 | Dubliner Paul Griffin heads to Turkey to defend the title he won two years ago in these same championships . |
| 7 | Dubliner Paul Griffin heads to Turkey to defend the title he won two years ago in these same championships . |
| 8 | Parrott , the world number two , is hoping to retain the title he won last year . |
| 9 | Also her son , though young and ‘ with it ’ , would prefer an exquisitely knitted and finished find wool classic sweater in a quiet colour or a heavier , brighter , really big sweater for cold weather — but I must find out first what colour he fancies this year ! |
| 10 | The 35-year-old will join his new county on tour in Sri Lanka next week , provided he receives a favourable medical report on the double stress fracture of his back he suffered two years ago . |
| 11 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 12 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 13 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 14 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 15 | Intel president Andy Grove on the biggest mistake he made last year |
| 16 | In winning the Light Manx Courtney added on to his Junior win on Wednesday and this was in addition to the Newcomers success he scored last year . |
| 17 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 18 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 19 | Before he joined Baronsmead he spent several years with a much larger organisation . |
| 20 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 21 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 22 | Before joining P&O he spent 31 years at sea and ashore with Union Castle Line . |
| 23 | Gareth Jenkins , Llanelli coach , is anxious that the younger Quinnell should not be rushed despite the impressive strides he made last year . |
| 24 | Yesterday the Banking Ombudsman revealed that the number of complaints he received last year jumped by 60 per cent . |
| 25 | A FORMER public school boy yesterday won £8,000 damages for a caning he received nine years ago . |
| 26 | Right now , Kendall is not back at the aristocratic Everton he knew seven years ago . |
| 27 | A director of a modern dance company , Bill T. Jones , a black American , is continuing the dance company he founded 20 years ago with his companion Arnie Zane , who died of AIDS in 1988 . |