Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 5 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 6 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 7 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 8 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 9 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 10 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 11 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 12 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |
| 13 | Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum . |
| 14 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 15 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 16 | As one of the team writing of the new catechism , Bishop David was in great demand to comment on the work which began some years ago . |
| 17 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 18 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 19 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
| 20 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 21 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
| 22 | ERNIE MARTIN , fund raiser for the Dawn Craggs Meningitis Appeal fund launched in memory of the Darlington 16-year-old who died six years ago . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The market is definitely thawing out from the big freeze we experienced last year , and it is thawing out from the bottom up . |
| 24 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 25 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 26 | It was stated that the 20-month-old child he killed twelve years earlier was a named woman 's ‘ illegitimate son ’ . |
| 27 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 28 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 29 | Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) . |
| 30 | Thus commenced a quest for salvation which lasted six years and in which he was often in a state of great depression . |