Example sentences of "year and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or wait two years and break it then ? ’ |
| 2 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 3 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 4 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 5 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 6 | The dentist was very decent , looked up his records although he did n't need to , because he 'd treated Mr. Stavanger for years and knew him quite well . |
| 7 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 8 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 9 | To keep that , I 'm quite willing to split the band after this tour for two years and let us all get out and try different things . |
| 10 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 11 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Francis , of Caroline Street , Hetton-le-Hole , to four months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £500 compensation . |
| 12 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 13 | Judge William Crawford sentenced her to three months in jail suspended for two years and ordered her to pay £50 costs . |
| 14 | Leyburn magistrates yesterday banned Adrian Pinnell , 20 , from driving for two years and ordered he pay a total of £730 in fines and costs . |
| 15 | We 've followed his progress over recent years and seen him grow up , quite literally . |
| 16 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 17 | WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game . |
| 18 | He has sported the distinctive moustache for many years and admitted it took some ‘ bare-faced cheek ’ to get rid of it . |
| 19 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 20 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 21 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 22 | Magistrates banned Wilson , who is working as a labourer in the Darlington area , from driving for three years and fined him £350 . |
| 23 | Now before we talk a little bit about that , I 'll j can I just take you back erm a couple of years and ask you er what your memories are of the general strike ? |
| 24 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 25 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 26 | ‘ And you , Kraal of the distant South , must try to remember all I have taught you these long years and pass it on . |
| 27 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 28 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 30 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |