Example sentences of "[art] year [conj] [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing . |
| 2 | As for my hon. Friend 's other question , I confirm that it is as a result of this Government 's economic policies and the growth achieved over the years that we have secured not only higher public spending but a substantial reduction in direct taxes . |
| 3 | Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ? |
| 4 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 5 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 6 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 7 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 8 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 9 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 10 | There was no going back now , no way to rewrite the years as she had known them . |
| 11 | At a Tuxis Boys ' camp the year before we had coined the word MELACHUSETUCK as an ‘ Indian name ’ for the camp . |
| 12 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 13 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
| 14 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 15 | The year before he 'd had scrambled eggs for Christmas dinner and no presents . |
| 16 | Dermot joined me at Magdalen for my fourth year at Oxford ; Roddy did not go up to Oxford until the year after I had left . |
| 17 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 18 | It is these in particular which have performed well during the year and we have gained market share through innovative product offerings and quick response to customers ’ demands . |
| 19 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 20 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 21 | And to qualify for that grant , you have got to submit two er your programme for the year and you 've got ta give the secretaries , you 've got to give a report and you 've got to give your balance sheet and er , Jean is always , I must say , very pleased with mine because erm you know , we do give quite a lot to charity . |
| 22 | His free kick that hit the post would have been the goal of the year if it had gone in . |
| 23 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 24 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 25 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 26 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 27 | It was obvious that Austria-Hungary would not allow the Russians to invade Bulgaria ; a year before she had disliked the possibility of a united and strengthened Bulgaria , even if it were on bad terms with Russia , and the prospect of one under Russia 's thumb was even worse . |
| 28 | ( 30 July 1768 ) And in September — over a year after they had left Salzburg — he wrote : |
| 29 | She has £20,000 savings and owes £10,000 on her repayment mortgage , which costs her £78 a month , or £930 a year after she has received the tax allowance . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |