Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barracks should have been torn down years ago , but the fort 's current proprietors , the Archaeological Survey of India , have lovingly continued the work of decay initiated by the British : white marble pavilions have been allowed to discolour ; plasterwork has been left to collapse ; the water channels have cracked and grassed over ; the fountains are dry . |
| 2 | But if the Newton Cap Viaduct Protection Group had not fought so well , the elegant crossing might have been torn down years ago . |
| 3 | Outside the lock gates , just as you go into th into near the erm Customs Hut , the Customs place , near the lock gates , all the rock now is what we dredged up years and years ago . |
| 4 | Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre . |
| 5 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 6 | And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He must have been let out years ago , ’ said Preston . |
| 8 | He ranted and raved because he found out years afterwards what it was the other swine had taken . |
| 9 | ‘ Stuff you , froggy , ’ our brat-pack novelists hooted back years ago . |
| 10 | There are , no doubt , many modern methods of construction , including far-reaching standardisation and various forms of prefabrication , which , developed and applied over years , would produce permanent and substantial economies . |
| 11 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 12 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 13 | The GIs had moved out years earlier , and Latinos and a few Asian former warriors from Vietnam and Cambodia had taken their place in houses that were built cheaply to last a short time . |
| 14 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 15 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 16 | ‘ Old drawers and boxes full of dusty papers going back years , anything Jeremiah Scrape wanted to keep hold of , and he 's got the key . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm going back years . |
| 18 | Tom I 'm going back years ago now . |
| 19 | But I ne I 'm going back years , 'cos I was on a diet , thinking , aw , I 'm not drinking that , its got sugar in it . |
| 20 | Well that 's how , you know , she 's going back years ago . |
| 21 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 22 | Well that 's the thing I have I had to give up years ago . |
| 23 | The original stuff had all been ripped out years ago , so when I moved in I thought I 'd go to town on the redecoration . |
| 24 | At the top of the boom the group 's worldwide housing business made only £35m ; in 1991 it wiped out years of British housebuilding profits by writing off £25m against just one housing estate — the St Mary Abbots luxury development in Kensington . |
| 25 | A RAVE party-goer high on Ecstasy wiped out years of vital cancer research when he went on a wrecking spree in a university laboratory . |
| 26 | A RAVE party-goer high on Ecstasy wiped out years of vital cancer research when he went on a wrecking spree in a university laboratory . |
| 27 | You 'd have to go back years to find a sequence of gigs as poorly attended as we 've seen recently : Frank Sinatra , Chesney Hawkes , Morrissey , Chris Rea , Lloyd Cole and Alice Cooper all played to empty rows in Dublin . |
| 28 | Lucy and her mother had fallen out years before , and the children hardly knew her . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , the Pringle family got out years ago . |
| 30 | Bacon Buildin 's should 'ave bin pulled down years ago , if yer ask me . ’ |