Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 2 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 3 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 4 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 5 | We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates . |
| 6 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 7 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 8 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 9 | It seemed ominous that the hotel was in Glasgow 's George Square , and we had met six-and-a-half years previously in George Square in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain . |
| 11 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 12 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |