Example sentences of "year [conj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | years and years I 've tried to get a pen I was |
2 | Well I went out once last year , you see , and I was lucky enough but and for years and years and years I took Fynnon Salts and which is supposed to be good for rheumatism . |
3 | Years and years and years it would take . |
4 | As Joe bowed his head and laughed , Mick went on , ‘ And every Sunday night for years and years it happened , because every Sunday night I 'd go down to hell . |
5 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
6 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
7 | In his early years as Archbishop he succeeded in obtaining the appointment of a number of Reformers as bishops . |
8 | More than half the money borrowed by Mexico , Venezuela and Argentina during the last ten years has effectively flowed out the back door , often in the same year or month it flowed in . |
9 | In my first year as chairman I am delighted to report that we have again achieved outstanding results , and we have increased the gap between ourselves and our nearest competitors . |
10 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |