Example sentences of "[prep] the years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the years we were taking speed , we would n't go into a pub or a crowded room . |
| 2 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 3 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 4 | As a general rule , you can use your ex-husband 's contributions towards your pension for the years you were married ( i.e. until the date of the decree absolute ) . |
| 5 | Although it happens far less frequently , a divorced man can rely on his former wife 's contribution record during the years they were married to improve his basic pension . |
| 6 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 7 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 8 | In this context I would like to pay a tribute to the British officers who served Burma during the years it was part of the Commonwealth . |
| 9 | Through the years though more erm through the years we actually only receive thirty percent of our input I suppose one of the examples are and then we only remember twenty percent of that thirteen percent again the danger of you know every remembers this |
| 10 | Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer . |
| 11 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 12 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |
| 13 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 14 | er , progressing through the years I doubt whether samples of the child 's work are kept officially in any other form or anywhere else |
| 15 | Through the years it passed into the possession of many Norman knights , nobility and royalty until in the 18th century , by marriage , it came to the family of the Marquesses of Bute . |
| 16 | Through the years she had sometimes half dreamed of it . |
| 17 | Through the years she has earned affection and esteem — we respect her judgement and sheer native genius — we appreciate her droll waspishness — we love to ‘ get her going ’ and hear the irresistible laugh ! |
| 18 | It is the goodness of the years we have lived through , of the old time when we did this and that , when we dwelt here or there . |
| 19 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |
| 20 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 21 | Lord Tebbit said : ‘ That is pretty silly of Mr Heath considering the years he spent trying to persuade people to vote against Lady Thatcher . |
| 22 | With the years they had drawn closer . |
| 23 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 24 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 25 | So do you feel that , I mean in the , in the years you 've worked here is the women as important as they always were in the factory ? |
| 26 | In the years I have trained Rottweilers , I have always found there to be a barrier at a certain stage where the dog becomes stubborn . |
| 27 | Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . " |
| 28 | Er in the years I can assure you . |
| 29 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 30 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |