Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 2 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 3 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 4 | I met him last year , when I was coming out of Bazyliszek and needed a ride . |
| 5 | I met her last year , you know . ’ |
| 6 | When we first started people used to say , Canine Defence League never heard of them , but since then people have come up to us and said , Oh I met you last year and I 've joined the League . |
| 7 | You 've changed a lot since I met you those years ago . |
| 8 | Well I helped you one year |
| 9 | Er , well I 've decided I want something this year |
| 10 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 11 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 12 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 13 | I give you ten years , sir , ’ he said to Havvie , ‘ but you are in bad condition , I see , so sweeten your language in future , or it will be the worse for you . ’ |
| 14 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 15 | These jumpers dry in no time , no pressing is required and the fabric is so light and cosy that I wear them all year round ! |
| 16 | I opened my competitive year at Cosford as usual , with the Indoor Championships . |
| 17 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 18 | I tell you another year of feasibility studies will take us to the point of no return . |
| 19 | The much-travelled 28-year-old said : ‘ I feel my best years are ahead . |
| 20 | He did play really well in the Championship year but any time I saw him last year he seemed to be nervous on the ball , surely not a good thing for a Centre Half . |
| 21 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 22 | He had a little pink around his muzzle and eyes when I bought him two years ago , but this has been gradually increasing and is now quite extensive . |
| 23 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 24 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 25 | I did it ten years ago c . |
| 26 | I did it last year myself . |
| 27 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 28 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
| 29 | And it 's the only house now well I left it I left it five year ago but it still belongs to my son . |
| 30 | ‘ I shot him last year in Scotland , ’ said Giffen triumphantly . |