Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 | Nowadays it 's the regular ferries that capsize ‘ D' you remember last year 's Zeebrugge catastrophe ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suggest we review next year 's budget and make some radical changes . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
| 10 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 11 | Has he bothered last year ? |
| 12 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 13 | You let me stay last year . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Here are just a few examples of the rave reviews they got this year : |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | I mean you said two years later change . |
| 20 | Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Had she lost respect for him for not being so positive and forcing her to stay last year ? |
| 24 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 25 | I woke up and opened my eyes and there were fuzzy patches , just like I had eight years ago … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 28 | Well I know I went four years running |
| 29 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 30 | 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 . |