Example sentences of "in [adj] the years [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 2 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 5 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 6 | In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . |
| 7 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 8 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 9 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |