Example sentences of "year earlier he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
2 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
3 | Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family . |
4 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
5 | Twenty years earlier he had put the bottom of the range at 7s ( 35p ) . |
6 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
7 | Three years earlier he had produced twenty illustrations , as well as endpapers and cover design for The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower , short stories for children which Paul published with Lehmann under the name ‘ Odo Cross ’ . |
8 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |
9 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
10 | Only a year earlier he had performed his last hat-trick . |