Example sentences of "year [subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 2 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |
| 3 | He was the head of fine art at the school of art for 20 years until he gave it all up to paint fulltime . |
| 4 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 5 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 6 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 7 | Militant Hindus have been trying to destroy the mosque at Ayodhya for years because they believe it was built by the 16th Century Moslem invaders . |
| 8 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 9 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |
| 10 | He quit after four and a half years because he feared he would get tagged as a soap star . |
| 11 | And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well . |
| 12 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 13 | We 're prepared to sustain losses for several years while we get it going . |
| 14 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 15 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 16 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 17 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 18 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 19 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 20 | Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders . |
| 21 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps the oak would lay there for three or four years before we used it . |
| 23 | If you gave your money away seven years before you died you paid no tax . |
| 24 | Fifty-two years before I met him , Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic . |
| 25 | ‘ It was years before I realised it was even common parlance , ’ Kenneth said , still staring out to the loch . |
| 26 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 27 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 28 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 29 | She needed four years before she knew she wanted to live here . |
| 30 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |