Example sentences of "[prep] the year [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 2 | Erm during the year we 've made about er two hundred and two hundred and twenty odd pounds . |
| 3 | During the year we have combined the sales and marketing strengths of Johnson Matthey and Emissionsteknik to promote diesel control systems for use on road vehicles and for off-road applications . |
| 4 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 5 | Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer . |
| 6 | Through the years she has earned affection and esteem — we respect her judgement and sheer native genius — we appreciate her droll waspishness — we love to ‘ get her going ’ and hear the irresistible laugh ! |
| 7 | We 've also had significant growth in our chain store business in this country we 've signed a new two-year contract with Air Canada and we 're much more optimistic about the rest of the year we 've got orders , production and sales all nicely in equilibrium ready for the second half . |
| 8 | By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters , joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters . |
| 9 | By the end of the year he had abdicated . |
| 10 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 11 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 12 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 13 | It is the goodness of the years we have lived through , of the old time when we did this and that , when we dwelt here or there . |
| 14 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |
| 15 | On Saturday nights throughout the year he had organised country and western music evenings to raise money for a variety of worthwhile causes . |
| 16 | With the years they had drawn closer . |
| 17 | Earlier in the year she had discussed circumcision , infertility and basic ante-natal care with her twelve-year-old girls , as part of classes on domestic economy and home-management . |
| 18 | In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city . |
| 19 | Earlier in the year I had improved my 200 metre time down to 21.2 . |
| 20 | So do you feel that , I mean in the , in the years you 've worked here is the women as important as they always were in the factory ? |
| 21 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 22 | Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . " |
| 23 | In the years I have trained Rottweilers , I have always found there to be a barrier at a certain stage where the dog becomes stubborn . |
| 24 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 25 | But over the year we 've drifted apart they had a family , we had a family |
| 26 | So that , when cornered , he admitted that over the year he had become affected by simple , inexplicable bouts of fear . |
| 27 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 28 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 29 | Over the years we 've enjoyed annual family holidays without feeling the pinch and we 've built up good relationships with our neighbours and the surrounding community . |
| 30 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |