Example sentences of "[conj] after [det] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |