Example sentences of "[adj] years she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 2 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 3 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 4 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 5 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 6 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 7 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 8 | It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover . |