Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent three enjoyable years at Salford between 1982–85 and I would be interested to hear from anyone who knew me , especially those on my course B.Sc ( Hons ) Economics . |
| 2 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I had five great years at Wimbledon , winning an FA Cup medal , and they made my career — so there is no bad feeling from me for Sam Hammam . |
| 5 | East Londoner Williams is certainly not ruing his decision to move back to Selhurst Park , saying : ‘ It 's familiar territory as far as I 'm concerned , I had two good years here with Charlton and I 'm hoping to spend a good few more here with Palace . |
| 6 | I had three great years under him . |
| 7 | But before I got , I er , I suggested that fucking years ago ! |
| 8 | We celebrate 70 fabulous years of GH , congratulate The Queen on 40 glorious years and pledge with Princess Anne to make this a successful year for our charity , Victim Support |
| 9 | So we waited five long years before we could go in daylight , find the oil , and deny the Luftwaffe and the tank crews of the substance that they so desperately needed . |
| 10 | Former British Lions captain John Dawes , brought in two years ago to halt the slide of the Richmond-based club , insists : ‘ We had four dreadful years but I honestly believe we can climb back up again . ’ |
| 11 | We had two lovely years in Rangoon before the Japanese invasion . |
| 12 | ‘ We had some good years . ’ |
| 13 | We had another excellent year in nineteen eighty nine with a twenty percent increase in earnings per share and a nineteen percent increase in dividends per share . |
| 14 | The value of money was relative and it was becoming an increasingly difficult task for her to reconcile those early years of poverty with her present position . |
| 15 | But her sense of humour , courage and ability to love help her to survive those terrible years until she finds the happiness she deserves . |
| 16 | It was unjust of her to disregard those thumb-sucking years in which Lily had held her close . |
| 17 | He began work in the Daily Express library at ten shillings a week where , by his own testimony , he spent many miserable years filing cuttings in the wrong envelopes and losing reference books . |
| 18 | But Halling which he loved and where he spent fifteen happy years has no recognition of this great man . |
| 19 | Waiting in the Methodist Hall to rehearse the roles of CS Lewis and the woman he spent three blissful years with before her death , Joy Davidman , were Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Lapotaire , another pair of stars not usually to be found out west . |
| 20 | Goodricke succeeded as fifth baronet 21 July 1738 ; left with an encumbered estate , he spent some difficult years in attempting to restore the family fortune . |
| 21 | He spent seven happy years at Rawlinsons after the war . |
| 22 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 23 | Well it is n't erm specifically in the erm cupboards it 's just erm because I 'm now coping with who has acted like a erm shoemaker shoemaker 's son do all your job I am coping with what he did thirty odd years ago |
| 24 | In 1902–6 he had four adventurous years ' attachment to the King 's African Rifles , serving up-country in Kenya , where he discovered a new species ( Hylochaeros meinertzhageni , the giant forest hog ) . |