Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 10 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 11 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 18 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 19 | Before that , I had spent three years as an education officer at Marwell Zoo Park , followed by several months as a wildlife officer at Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary in Malawi . |
| 20 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 21 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 22 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 23 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 24 | She stared hard at the black curly hairs on the neck of the man she 'd married nine years before . |
| 25 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 26 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 27 | Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn . |
| 28 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 29 | She had spent 71 years in exile , but Vienna 's Socialist mayor was in St Stephen 's cathedral for the requiem mass at which the old imperial anthem Gott erhalte unseren Kaiser ( ’ God save our Emperor ’ ) was sung and a benediction given in the seven languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 30 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |