Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 2 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 3 | No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now . |
| 4 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 5 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 6 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 7 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 8 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 9 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 10 | My wife and I divorced 12 years ago — and she has since remarried . |
| 11 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 12 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 13 | I read many years ago that houses are part of the really the last true free market |
| 14 | One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 17 | I recall some years ago that a young postgraduate student who was designing a schedule containing a lot of attitude questions had his schedule internally tested at this stage by a number of people and practically every question he had put was a double one . |
| 18 | What have I got this year though ? |
| 19 | I began 4 years ago with 150ml stock bottles , went on to 100ml stock bottles and I now use 5ml dropper bottles ! |
| 20 | By the the I served five year then and I left that and I went into corporation transport which was tramcars then . |
| 21 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 22 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 23 | I remember many years ago , we had friends who had a fishing boat , er herring drifter , and in Fraserburgh the there 's a young lad going out with them for a night 's fishing and it was a beautiful summer 's night ! |
| 24 | It 's had about ten or twelve names since I 've been going there , though some of them were just for one night , just for a party or celebration , and even then the name was never written up anywhere , you just had to know that tonight it was The Lily Pond , or The Jewel Box , The Gigolo , The Hustler , The Place ( no , I think that was somewhere else ) , Grave Charges ( I loved that one ) — or The You Know You Like It , I remember that year especially . |
| 25 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 26 | I remember some years ago sharing a few dinner dates with a young lady who turned out to be one of Prince Charles 's old friends . |
| 27 | Once again , I understand this year over £1m has to be found again by Darlington Health Authority to meet this shortfall . |
| 28 | ‘ With all this background work on which to draw , I decided two years ago to mount an experimental project which would define the difference between nature and nurture . |
| 29 | It 's a development that has grown in my political lifetime over erm I suppose twenty years now . |
| 30 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |