Example sentences of "years [adv] i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To fit myself for this level of teaching after many years away I did an M.Phil . |
| 2 | Three years later I led a review of social security which was regarded as even more untouchable than the health service . |
| 3 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 4 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
| 5 | Forty-four years later I visited the battlefield and saw skulls and bones in crevices on the rocky hillock where Negus Mikael had made his final stand . |
| 6 | A few years back I got a girl pregnant and I think she was forced to have an abortion , which is opposite to Lesley . |
| 7 | A couple of years back I reviewed the Delmé Quartet 's standard encore disc on Hyperion . |
| 8 | Two years ago I planted a pampas grass to screen an ugly compost heap . |
| 9 | I live surrounded by farmland and I am pleased no foxhunters are allowed , as over 50 years ago I experienced the killing of a fox by hounds . |
| 10 | A few years ago I saw a modification with two small hydraulic servos , one fitted to the front and one fitted to the rear brake pipes , ahead of the brake failure device . |
| 11 | ‘ On a fine Spring morning some sixty years ago I saw a crowd of half-nude men digging ruthlessly into the old grave barrow that has stood from time immemorial on the eastern slope of the hill between the traditional Hurlers and that towering rock idol , the Cheesewring . |
| 12 | Forty years ago I saw a friend off at Paddington , bound for Totnes . |
| 13 | A few years ago I saw a catalogue offering Scotch , sometimes called ‘ Burnett ’ , roses . |
| 14 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 15 | ‘ Twenty-five years ago I made a suspense movie , Wait Until Dark , with Audrey Hepburn for which she got an Oscar . |
| 16 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 17 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 18 | Several years ago I wrote a controversial article in a fishing magazine concerning black , bronze and two-tone bream . |
| 19 | ‘ About four years ago I wrote a book called The Bamboo Cage , which investigated the allegation that American prisoners had been left behind in Vietnam after the war had ended . |
| 20 | SOME YEARS AGO I wrote an article for The Artist 's and Illustrator 's Magazine , entitled Painting Naturally . |
| 21 | ( Do you know , years ago I asked a wise man who lived in a cave outside Alexandria why this happens ? |
| 22 | Twenty five years ago I became the Member of Parliament for East Grinstead . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 24 | Looking for support and because I thought the Royal Society of Chemistry would welcome an opportunity of improving the standing of chemists in the community , some three years ago I sent the secretary-general of the RSC a letter very similar to the one published ( Chem . |
| 25 | SOME YEARS AGO I painted a woman sitting next to a table lamp . |
| 26 | SOME YEARS AGO I painted a woman sitting next to a table lamp . |
| 27 | Years ago I owned a Mercedes Benz estate car . |
| 28 | Five years ago I hired an aircraft to tour for two weeks in the USA and was briefed on the possibility of radio thefts and the method used . |
| 29 | Three years ago I met a marvellous man , we married and had a daughter . |
| 30 | ‘ Five years ago I met a woman called Irene Adler . |