Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 2 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 3 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 4 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |
| 5 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |