Example sentences of "those years [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
2 | In fact those years saw a lot of feminist activity . |
3 | Lizzie walked towards the fireplace and , stretching out her arm , she gripped the mantel , saying , ‘ All those years looking after her , pandering to her wants , running for prescriptions . ’ |
4 | Not once in all those years had they seen a real smile on his face . |
5 | Those years had an intensity , a singularity and a sense of joy about them that I have not known before or since . |
6 | Those years had established — or perhaps one should say clarified — his entire political agenda . |
7 | ‘ All the people who worked with Laura in those years experienced the rough edge of her humour at some time or other , usually when you were so run down and exhausted , after four or five days travelling with no proper sleep , that you could not fight back . ’ |
8 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
9 | More immediately , before those years pass and there is any immediate prospect of monetary union , it must be recognised how vulnerable Britain would be if the Government 's strategy were to avoid commitment to the process under way in the European Community . |
10 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
11 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
12 | The turmoil of those years seems now , in this new era of superpower co-operation , to be very far away . |
13 | The connection led to an invitation to drive in FI for Ferrari , an arrangement which in those years seems to have been a rather casual affair . |
14 | Colin Renfrew On the international scene , archaeology in those years underwent the revolution sometimes referred to as the ‘ new archaeology ’ and has continued , as I see it , with what is now called processual archaeology : the most important component is a much greater concern to make archaeological theory and reasoning methods explicit . |
15 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
16 | Because of his fame , his history and his continued presence in the sport , as well as the strength of his personality , Emerson remained a figure ; but also the shadows lengthened about him and few who worked with him in those years have much good to say about their relationships with him or with his team . |
17 | Those years have also witnessed the development of new terminology . |
18 | All those years wasted — such a shame . |
19 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
20 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
21 | Now the old Stormont-based hegemony in the north has been swept away , destroyed by its own excesses in the half-century to 1972 — though the poisonous legacy of those years lingers on in terrorism . |
22 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |
23 | From 9 January to 10 February she has invited many of the artists with which she has been closely associated during those years to show . |