Example sentences of "years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 2 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 3 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Many Japanese are nationalistic , so even I , when I decided to join Arthur Andersen , thought that after 18 months or two years I would leave and open my own office . |
| 5 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 6 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 8 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 9 | For years I would come back to the store and walk over to where they were . |
| 10 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 11 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 12 | Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs |
| 13 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 14 | In recent years I ca n't really think of anybody who 's got near , apart from Batty . |
| 15 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 16 | ‘ Over the next two years I shall be paying particular attention to the need to stress the primary importance of manufacturing industry to this region 's future , ’ he said . |
| 17 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 18 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 19 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 20 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 21 | For years I used to think that Shakespeare 's line , ‘ and roasted crabs hiss in the bowl ’ , was about sea-food , describing the sound of boiling water , and claws , scratching vainly against the side of a hot , bubbling pan . |
| 22 | For years I used to carry the stuff . |
| 23 | For years I used to knit exactly the number of rows quoted in the instructions , especially when I was trying to get friendly with the machine . |
| 24 | For years I could n't catch the bloom on a child or young girl 's cheeks , but more recently I managed to capture this with one stroke of the knife . |
| 25 | ‘ In past years I could have authorized it , ’ Potter says . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 27 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 28 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 29 | In about two hundred years I 'd be the richest man in Luggnagg . |
| 30 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |