Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] make [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's that stuff I made last year and |
| 3 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 4 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 5 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 6 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 7 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 8 | Intel president Andy Grove on the biggest mistake he made last year |
| 9 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 10 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |