Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 2 | I mean the sixteen years , what , what time ? |
| 3 | I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me . |
| 4 | I forget the actual year . |
| 5 | ‘ The longest day I can remember at Needham smithy was the day of the Stowmarket Christmas sale — I forget the exact year . |
| 6 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 7 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 8 | I played the whole year with Peter and we won the British Open . |
| 9 | Have a lovely Christmas , and I hope the New Year will be very happy for you both . |
| 10 | As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated . |
| 11 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 12 | In 1967 I was awarded the Rome scholarship and I spent a marvellous year at the British School in Rome . |
| 13 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 15 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 16 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 17 | Eight years ago , no nine years ago , I lost a three year old grandchild from something very much like T S S , and that was erm streptococcus septicaemia . |
| 18 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 19 | I thought every five years |
| 20 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 21 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I think a few years younger . ’ |
| 23 | Not really no , I mean , erm , I did a three year national diploma in music , music recording |
| 24 | Erm so I did the two year C C Q S W course . |
| 25 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 26 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 27 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 28 | I waited a thousand years for my introduction , then the curtains opened and I found myself centre-stage . |
| 29 | I have a five year old three foot tank housing fish and inverts . |
| 30 | I earn £28000 a year , and I have a one year contract . |