Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 3 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 4 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 5 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 6 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 7 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 8 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 9 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 10 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 11 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 12 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 13 | In well under the two years they had allowed themselves , the appeal had a total of £54 million with a further £30 million promised by the government . |
| 14 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 15 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 16 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 17 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 18 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 19 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 20 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 21 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 22 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |