Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 2 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 3 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 4 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 6 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |
| 7 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 8 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 9 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 10 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 11 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 12 | By about 1930 she had ceased painting , though for several more years she made small , colourful , increasingly abstract water-colours . |