Example sentences of "[prep] years i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , but it might have been in a couple of years I thought . |
| 2 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 3 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 4 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 5 | ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . |
| 6 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 8 | I says cos I said that fellow I says my husband 's mother for years I says , in fact and old photographs in the house we have of and his wife and a whole crowd . |
| 9 | I did draw the line at giving up the spices I cooked with even though for years I continued to receive remarks about my stinking of garlic , yuk , with monotonous regularity . |
| 10 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 11 | For years I had stood upon those scales and willed the reading down . |
| 12 | And yet for years I adored him , she thought with horrified wonder . |
| 13 | For years I 'd intended to climb them sometime , but psychologically they are very skilled at keeping aspiring visitors away . |
| 14 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 15 | For years I bet that mind you it looks quite a newish one that one and son . |
| 16 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 18 | For years I 've been used to addressing the parson as ‘ vicar ’ . |
| 19 | For years I believed Pathos was one of the Three Musketeers , Fellatio was a character in Hamlet , Vitreous a town in China , and that the Irish peasants had to tread the peat to make Guinness . |
| 20 | ‘ For years I believed I did n't have even one person I could call family , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 22 | ‘ For years I studied photos and maps of it . |
| 23 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 24 | For years I grew the honeysuckle Lonicera japonica Aureoreticulata on a west-facing wall , and its small oval leaves , heavily veined with deep yellow , gave me great pleasure . |
| 25 | Kath and the children are the most important things in my life now , whereas for years I think cricket was . |
| 26 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 27 | For years I poured my unfulfilled desire |
| 28 | For years I allowed him to treat me like dirt . |
| 29 | Yet for years I have made free with opinions about floating the pound , shadowing the mark , sinking the dollar , and effect on the £ of entering Europe , devaluation , and the various devices that are wheeled out every year for the Budget . |
| 30 | For years I have been excited by him , quoted him , relied on him . |