Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [det] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
2 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
3 | Yet I am not 100 per cent sure I want another five years of Tory rule . |
4 | I enjoyed another two years in Kenya but now my work is mission appeals in South West Britain and I have discovered at last the source of our treasure ! |
5 | Our electronic publishing operation began when we looked at buying Computing Today , a magazine I spent some four years editing , which Argus were closing down . |
6 | Well I 've took that , I took that some years ago but I 've never seen it on show you know ? |
7 | So , where he 's done the extra year at the end if I do this extra year at the beginning I can start the teaching certificate . |
8 | ‘ Bring up the breakdown I had all those years ago . |
9 | The book I had all those years ago . |
10 | My experiences are very similar to the writer in that standards for smaller audits in particular appeared to be very poor in a firm that I left some two years ago . |
11 | ‘ I feel I have another two years left and Saints are on the brink of achieving more success after their Premiership triumph . |
12 | ‘ I have another 30 years left inside me and my daughter has another 60 . |
13 | ‘ And I feel I have another three years at the top , after which , who knows … ’ he sighs . |
14 | But before I got , I er , I suggested that fucking years ago ! |
15 | She lived some 500 years ago in the times of King Henry VIIIth and Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
16 | As she sees it , what did I come to offer her ( and she waiting all these years ) ? |
17 | Though she spent some 70 years in the limelight , Miss Hayes said she had no regrets about her career choice . |
18 | Although similar to last year 's level of twenty three million you remember that last year 's number included the purchase of four freehold properties for nine million pounds . |
19 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
20 | So with reconditioning , and new pistons and new liners etcetera , you get another ten years out of the engine . |
21 | Do you really think the boy she loved all those years ago was really Felipe Freitas ? ’ |
22 | May you have another 40 years unless , of course , Jesus returns before then . |
23 | Mm well you think all those years |
24 | The first four children appear in the archives with regularity , as does Francis , a child born to Elizabeth and Lord John Russel , a man she married some eight years after the death of Thomas Hoby in Paris in 1566 . |
25 | It is not easy to come to terms with the idea that the parents on whom you depended all those years ago may now — possibly because of ill-health — have become dependent upon you . |
26 | Oh we got some this year , we never got none last year |
27 | When we moved some six years later to a small town again , in Berkshire , I found I was more competent in the three Rs than any other school child of my own age . |
28 | we spent all these years on this and |
29 | We thought that last year we hoped that last year , the murder of migrant workers in and the demonstrations of fascist thugs was clearly not isolated . |
30 | ‘ We did that last year . |