Example sentences of "years [adv] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 2 | Many years later I was sent as emissary to Mary , Queen of Scots , when she was playing the two-backed beast with Bothwell . |
| 3 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 4 | Then seven years later I was reading a newspaper and there was this article about the Israeli journalist who broke the news about the Israelis having nuclear silos in the Negev Desert , and suddenly the coin dropped . |
| 5 | Fifteen years later I was asked to speak in a St Andrew 's Day debate being put out by BBC Television in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | A couple of years later I was telephoned by a BBC producer called Ron Webster , who said he wanted to talk to me about Mountbatten 's obituary programme . |
| 7 | Now four years later I 'm doing British social and economic history , seventeen hundred to the present day , and then listing a whole lot of textile inventions and the flying shuttle and so on , all of which did n't work anyway . ’ |
| 8 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 9 | About three years ago I was reading a newspaper and there was this big article about my approved school . |
| 10 | Last time I was here 25 years ago I was placed 11th . |
| 11 | Many years ago I was taking notes in a legal matter and only realised when I was transcribing them that police commissioner and police constable have the same initials . |
| 12 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 13 | ‘ When the Trust took over eighteen years ago I was made what was called Garden Manager , and I used to run the garden and the gardeners did exactly what I wanted . |
| 14 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 15 | Three and a half years ago I was promoted to manager . |
| 16 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 17 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 18 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 19 | However , after working in television research and for a translation company , two years ago I was offered a job in the USSR team of the East European section of Price Waterhouse . |
| 20 | Some years ago I was travelling on a train from Liverpool to Southport . |
| 21 | ‘ Ten years ago I was working in Spud-U-Like in the evening and cleaning hotels in the morning . |
| 22 | Just four years ago I was working in China and I celebrated International Women 's Day in China . |