Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 2 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 3 | You got yours last year . |
| 4 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 5 | But they stopped them last year did n't they ? |
| 6 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 7 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 8 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 9 | R At the Guildhall the Queen described her horrible year . |
| 10 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 11 | The intifada in the Israeli-occupied territories entered its fifth year on Dec. 10 . |
| 12 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 13 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |
| 14 | On Dec. 10 the intifada entered its sixth year . |
| 15 | The intifada in the Israeli-occupied territories entered its fourth year on Dec. 10 . |
| 16 | The October Temple Mount massacre in Jerusalem [ see pp. 37759-60 ] had the effect of reviving the flagging intifada , which entered its fourth year in December . |
| 17 | HAVING taken her revenge on Sue Wright , the English girl who beat her last year , world champion Susan Devoy of New Zealand will be challenged by Cassie Jackman , England 's No 5 and world junior champion , in the semi-finals of the Hi-Tec British Open Championships , at Wembley , today . |
| 18 | Well I helped you one year |
| 19 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 20 | But now , as he entered his final years , he had begun to question what had been done in his name . |
| 21 | He followed David Bairstow , a man entirely composed of red-blood corpuscles , who entered his declining years kicking and screaming with resentment . |
| 22 | And er I forgot all about it , entered it last year . |
| 23 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 24 | Well you seen it last year when you came and saw the garden and |
| 25 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 26 | He devoted his remaining years to Kentish affairs : he was an active local magistrate ; he promoted a loyal address to the king from the inhabitants of Walmer in December 1820 ; and in 1826 he was one of the main subscribers to the enlargement of Walmer church . |
| 27 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
| 28 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 29 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 30 | " I hope that you found our New Year ceremony of some interest . " |