Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] did [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
2 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
3 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
4 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
5 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
6 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
7 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
8 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
9 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
10 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
11 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
12 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
13 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
14 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
15 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
16 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
17 | ‘ Oh yeah , hanging around moonfaced like he did ten years ago , all ill-fitting clothes and two halves of shandy because he had his pushbike with him . ’ |
18 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
19 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
20 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
21 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
22 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
23 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
24 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
25 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
26 | A and perhaps instead of employing Mr last year er as we did last year to do management development , this year we could have er safety development as being |
27 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
28 | I think I would commend LIFE to you , but it will be with the same conditions and terms as we did last year , with which they did comply . |
29 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
30 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |