Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 2 | I know which , I know she got married last year . |
| 3 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 4 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 5 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 6 | She stared hard at the black curly hairs on the neck of the man she 'd married nine years before . |
| 7 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 8 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 9 | It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father . |
| 10 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 11 | She had spent 71 years in exile , but Vienna 's Socialist mayor was in St Stephen 's cathedral for the requiem mass at which the old imperial anthem Gott erhalte unseren Kaiser ( ’ God save our Emperor ’ ) was sung and a benediction given in the seven languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 12 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 13 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 14 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 15 | In twenty-four hours she had aged ten years . |
| 16 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 17 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 18 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
| 19 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 20 | Brought up in Kinlochewe , she had left thirty years ago and never been back even though she lived in Tain only sixty-odd miles to the east . |
| 21 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 22 | He was unshaven , and his stomach was beginning to protrude over his belt , but there were still traces of the fine , athletic figure and well-cut features that she had married seven years ago . |