Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 2 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 3 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 4 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 5 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 6 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 7 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 8 | Well you seen it last year when you came and saw the garden and |
| 9 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 10 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 11 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 12 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 13 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 14 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 15 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 16 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 17 | The south-western desert states ( Arizona , New Mexico , Nevada and Utah ) have largely escaped the current recession , having suffered theirs five years ago . |
| 18 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 19 | A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |
| 21 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 22 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 23 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 24 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 25 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 26 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 27 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 28 | I had visited it last year out of curiosity . |
| 29 | And I 've noticed it this year more markedly than ever before , a certain resignation to unemployment when they leave school . |
| 30 | You 've changed a lot since I met you those years ago . |