Example sentences of "[det] years [adv] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years ago it was handed to the chaplain of the Chelsea Pensioners at a funeral , but the clergyman said he had read it many years before . |
| 2 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 3 | Some years ago I was travelling on a train from Liverpool to Southport . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether I told you … but some years ago she was diagnosed as having … polyneuritis … ’ |
| 5 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 6 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 7 | Four-and-a half years later we were all reunited , back in the tiny flat in Wandsworth . |
| 8 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 9 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 10 | But two and a half years later he was front page news . |
| 11 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 12 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 13 | Three and a half years ago I was promoted to manager . |
| 14 | When I arrived at Palace five and a half years ago it was n't only Ian 's gold tooth and charisma that sparkled on the training field . |
| 15 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 16 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 17 | A few years later he was accused of having speculated on the Paris Bourse , using official information . |
| 18 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 19 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 20 | A few years later it 's chocs away for Rovers ' new regime at Wolves on Saturday . |
| 21 | Somebody said , well a few years later it was Charles Manson and I said , who ? |
| 22 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 23 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 24 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 25 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 26 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 27 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 29 | A few years ago I was a guest in an Indian village . |
| 30 | A few years ago she was admitted to a mental hospital and drugs kept her in a repressed state . |