Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago .
2 I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I
3 ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further .
4 Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating .
5 I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet .
6 I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor .
7 I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor .
8 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
9 I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor .
10 It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere .
11 Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ?
12 I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’
13 I 'd had that years , it really bugged me .
14 John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’
15 I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances .
16 I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ .
17 Erm , this is something that I started to use last year .
18 I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 .
19 Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me .
20 It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago .
21 Ignatius of Loyal er or er , more properly known to me in church history was the scourge of the wrath of the , of the council of reformation and inside of consumism but I think regards some years ago in on Ignatius spirituality of bibles which I 'm delighted to see John has mentioned in his prologue for the er for his introduction to Holywell the the the association 's there came to discover who Saint Ignatius er , helping to sort of tap greater spiritual depths and er resources and consequently trained as spiritual director er in Ignatian things .
22 Mind you , I did think last year the grant was down too low , at eight hundred thousand , but that was the amount they put in , it was two point eight , I think , to start with , and two million pounds offered in the end .
23 In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ .
24 I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned .
25 It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year .
26 I had hoped this year to be able to report a turn round and some substantial progress towards our target of achieving a nil deficit for the financial year nineteen ninety-one ninety-two .
27 But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously .
28 I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole .
29 I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 .
30 Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time .
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