Example sentences of "time [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time that year she sniffed autumn . |
| 2 | They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back . |
| 3 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 4 | Rather abruptly , when they 'd all opened their presents and had a glass of sherry in their hands , she said , with a shy look at Tim , ‘ Before we start our dinner we 'd like to tell you that this time next year you 'll be Grandma and Grandpa . ’ |
| 5 | This time next year you you 'll have a good you 'll have a nice little hedge there then . |
| 6 | If you come and work for me , this time next year you 'll be millionaire . |
| 7 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 8 | I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch ! |
| 9 | But er she does want to pay it back , she does want to pay it back , and er well she wants to pay it back , erm , if you could start it this time next year she 'd be er she would be grateful for that . |
| 10 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |
| 11 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
| 12 | This time last year we were very apprehensive about entering a year when so much doom and gloom was being talked about . |
| 13 | He may remember that at about this time last year we published a series of figures which demonstrated that his predictions were wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ But this time last year we were in a similar position . |
| 15 | This time last year we actually were a little too conservative . |
| 16 | ‘ At this time last year we were ninth and finished third . |
| 17 | This time last year we were fairly hyped-up with an election coming and people were checking if they were on the register . ’ |
| 18 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 19 | But last time do you remember this time last year it got so that his foot was really puffy ? |
| 20 | THIS time last year I struck one of the most unlucky ante-post bets of my whole racing career when taking the 16-1 Ten Plus for the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 21 | I am a solicitor in a busy city centre practice and this time last year I was your typical workaholic — at my desk from 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday , and occasionally Saturday as well . |
| 22 | THIS TIME last year I was decidedly unimpressed with the range of clothes available in Belfast . |
| 23 | This time last year I had eight goats given to me from eight different people . |
| 24 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 25 | This time last year I was sitting with twenty other people in some dull sixth-form room , being told about participles or Corn Laws by someone no one had ever heard of , and here I am , just one year later , on my own in a solidly built house in North Oxford , a cup of coffee on the floor beside me , giving my views on sense-data to a well-known professional philosopher who then has to break off to take a call from the Prime Minister . |
| 26 | ‘ This time last year I was cold and very miserable . |
| 27 | Sort of , when we went to see Jan 's mother for Christmas , I was saying to myself yeah , mm this time last year I was on holiday from work |
| 28 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 29 | THIS time last year he unbanned black parties , suspended the death penalty and went on to free Nelson Mandela , the world 's most famous political prisoner . |
| 30 | This time last year he was caring for injured animals in his back garden in Aylesbury . |