Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 3 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 4 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 5 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 6 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 7 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 8 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 9 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 10 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 11 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 12 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 13 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 14 | The stern , slightly pained expressions on the saints ' white and pink faces seemed to reflect fifty years or more of having a brass trumpet sounding in their ears . |
| 15 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
| 16 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 17 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 18 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 19 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 20 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 21 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 22 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 23 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 24 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 25 | When I needed some black shoes for the annual ASP banquet in Honolulu , Bodo van der Leeden dug out a pair he 'd bought fifteen years before . |
| 26 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 27 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
| 28 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 29 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
| 30 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |