Example sentences of "but [adj] year [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was fifteen my mother thought I was still a child … but that year I discovered life , rock and roll and love with a boy named Brownie Hansen … ’ |
| 2 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |
| 3 | Rosenberg had hoped to earn a living from his portraits , but that year he learned that his lungs were weak and was advised to seek a warmer climate . |
| 4 | This is the biggest amount raised so far but this year we hope to raise even more ’ . |
| 5 | Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’ |
| 6 | But this year they announced the recession had hit investments mainly in property and so grants would be reduced for several years . |
| 7 | Usually in Maytime she liked to walk up into the high mountain meadows to see the wild flowers , but this year she had no heart . |
| 8 | She has spent the last year following her sailing pursuits but this year she gave priority to her GCSE exams and has done much less sailing . |
| 9 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 10 | Taubman still owns about $185 million of Sotheby 's stock , but this year he sold eight million shares worth about $106 million . |
| 11 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 12 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 13 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 14 | Yeah I know that but next year I mean you got the tunnel coming out of the Ferry . |
| 15 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 16 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 17 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 18 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 19 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |