Example sentences of "[adj] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all these years they spend . |
| 2 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 5 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 6 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 7 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 8 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 9 | Alter all these years I thought the man in our house was my dad , and he was n't . |
| 10 | He 's told friends , " All these years I 've thrown away money on that child . " |
| 11 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 12 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 13 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 14 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 15 | ‘ All these years I denied my love . |
| 16 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 18 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 21 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 22 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 23 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 24 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 27 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 28 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 29 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 30 | His friends were calling to him , urging him on , and he was thinking that if this was what he had wanted all these years he was afraid of it . |