Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 2 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 3 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 4 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 5 | As I said last year , there were quite a few people out on the walkways , so it was very rarely you got anybody walking through . |
| 6 | erm , freehold parks , as I said last year we bought nine million pounds worth of freehold now |
| 7 | As I said last year at the Whitbread and Company conference on employee volunteering . |
| 8 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 9 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
| 10 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 11 | Well as you said last year they really wanted something for nothing , for it |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 14 | The blind woman quivered as she skryed light years outward through the warp , obeying the disciplines of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , seeking contact with the mind of some other Astropath serving the fortress-monastery at Vindict V. |
| 15 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is n't always possible as we saw last year and as we have been reminded , that was not an easy decision and in fact it 's one of the reasons that we have n't put extra money into the primary schools this year . |
| 18 | Use the same posters as we had last year , but put on , cover up and put a new on , use them up . |
| 19 | some of the taking exams as we had this year , they , they |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Proposing this , Michael Watkinson added : ‘ As we paid last year , possibly they could contribute this year . ’ |
| 25 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |
| 28 | QPR are also charging the same for their shirts as they did last year — £19.99 — and although their shorts and socks are not yet available they are still among the cheapest . |
| 29 | McCallen and Robert Dunlop may again share the two 250cc races as they did last year and Moodie may lift the 400cc . |
| 30 | As they did last year , the big-hearted bunch have decided to donate their winnings to a local charity . |