Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 2 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 3 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 4 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 5 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 6 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 7 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |