Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this month the marine geologists at the survey 's western headquarters in Menlo Park , California , revealed what they discovered during a nine-month cruise last year and what they want to reexamine this year . |
| 2 | Corporate members , which they want to admit next year alongside names trading with unlimited liability , will have to bid for a place — the price being a levy to Lloyd 's central fund . |
| 3 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 4 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 5 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 6 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 7 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 8 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 9 | Where they , they offer extended five year warranties . |
| 10 | Lineen will captain the Saltires when they aim to repeat last year 's record victory over Ulster at Ravenhill , Belfast , tonight ( 7:30 ) . |
| 11 | It 's two years since we 've done it so we 've got two years ’ worth of playing and they 've got two years ' worth of applause . ’ |
| 12 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 13 | So they 've had five years this is not re , this is not just recently . |
| 14 | Are you optimistic that erm people will perceive the services under this budget as better than they 've had last year , or worse ? |
| 15 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 16 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 17 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 18 | They had met four years earlier at a Christmas party in the village , where Mrs Williams ( nee Theakston ) lived and Mr Williams , originally from Shildon , had relatives . |
| 19 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 20 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 21 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 22 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
| 23 | They had spent two years in custody on charges of treason , murder and kidnapping in connection with the attempted coup in July-August 1990 [ see pp. 37606-07 ; 38239 ] . |
| 24 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 25 | It took the form of granting women — provided they had attained thirty years of age , the right to vote in a parliamentary election ; also all men of twenty-one years of age . |
| 26 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 27 | In the show , set in a California motel , they had to age twenty-five years , which meant six complete changes of costume , hairstyle and make-up . |
| 28 | They have cut this year 's profit forecast by £18m to £570m . |
| 29 | The Metros were the hardest side , quite literally , they have faced this year . |
| 30 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |