Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 2 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 3 | I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 5 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |
| 6 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 7 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 8 | He also said 43-year-old Sarfraz revealed the secrets of Pakistan 's reverse swing to him 12 years ago . |
| 9 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 10 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |