Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 2 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 3 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 4 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 5 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 6 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 7 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 8 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 9 | Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 11 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 12 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 13 | She had n't spoken to him since New Year 's Eve , since Violette had told her . |
| 14 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 15 | Lord Lawson , as he now is , gives many ‘ through the keyhole ’ insights into the woman who lived next door to him for six years , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 16 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 17 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 18 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 19 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 20 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 21 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 22 | Secondly , it is not even probable that she would have known much about the progress of the book at the time , except in the most general terms : she was not often in her brother 's company and his letters to her during these years do not suggest that details of such matters formed any part of their common ground . |
| 23 | he was talking to her like seven years old . |
| 24 | Talking to her like seven years old ? |
| 25 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 26 | ‘ Just remember that your contract commits you to us for two years , ’ he said coolly . |
| 27 | Glenavon manager Alan Fraser insisted last night : ‘ Ferguson is under contract to us for another year and is going nowhere . |