Example sentences of "years of [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had begun to suspect that , despite his many years of unstinting service to the Party in both Warwickshire and Westminster , he was not as loved as he once had been . |
| 2 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 3 | After years of bullnosing Armstrong through the London traffic it was an awesome driving experience . |
| 4 | David and Martha came to Dunstaffnage House after eight years of teaching sports in the Alps . |
| 5 | How she would handle the top job when so many others had years of working experience in the service was a different matter . |
| 6 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |