Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
| 3 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 4 | I 'm originally from 80 Km north of there — a wee place called Castlebar and before you start slagging off Mayo footballers , I 'd better let you know I know this year 's hurling result ! ! ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 7 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 8 | Nowadays it 's the regular ferries that capsize ‘ D' you remember last year 's Zeebrugge catastrophe ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I suggest we review next year 's budget and make some radical changes . |
| 10 | Why it is , it 's very , very , very wrong , say we pay all year round for that , I 've paid for a year for my ticket |
| 11 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
| 12 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 13 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 14 | Has he bothered last year ? |
| 15 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 16 | down to , I d I do n't even know what happened last year . |
| 17 | You let me stay last year . |
| 18 | Melanie Simmonite says she started 20 years ago … her husband did it so it was a case of you ca n't beat them join them … |
| 19 | It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall . |
| 20 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 21 | Here are just a few examples of the rave reviews they got this year : |
| 22 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 23 | I mean you said two years later change . |
| 24 | Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before . |
| 25 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 26 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |
| 27 | Well we 're going to mum 's but Geoff said well I I hate them cos Bobby and Pam are going I think this year he said well if I get fed up doing that evening he said I 'll come home early . |
| 28 | Had she lost respect for him for not being so positive and forcing her to stay last year ? |
| 29 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 30 | Look what happened last year when the three of them nearly went bankrupt . |