Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 2 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 3 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 4 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 5 | You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time . |
| 6 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 7 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 8 | ‘ There will be fewer to bring it in next year , when the listed men have gone . ’ |