Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [num] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 9 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | I mean you said two years later change . |
| 15 | Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before . |
| 16 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 17 | I woke up and opened my eyes and there were fuzzy patches , just like I had eight years ago … ’ |
| 18 | Well I know I went four years running |
| 19 | And her father , no slouch on the Nordic circuit himself , has agreed to let her take five years out of education to become a champion . |
| 20 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 21 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 22 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 23 | A few of the Holocaust Armenians are in Beirut old people 's homes , too senile to record what happened 74 years ago . |
| 24 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 25 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 26 | I think it means they 're all just older family , I do n't think it means six year olds . |
| 27 | Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard . |
| 28 | Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ? |
| 29 | On Jan. 15 , 1990 , an agreement was signed in Paris by Lev Voronin , a First Deputy Chair of the Soviet Council of Ministers and Bérégovoy , on economic , industrial and scientific co-operation between France and the Soviet Union , which replaced one concluded 25 years earlier . |
| 30 | Dotty was thirty-nine , but had he added twenty years onto her age he knew it would n't have deterred Harbour . |