Example sentences of "[prep] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 2 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 3 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 4 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 5 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 6 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 7 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 8 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 9 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 10 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 11 | For a couple of years he worked in London with MI6 , mainly bugging diplomatic premises and illegally opening diplomatic mail . |
| 12 | Eventually , but it might have been in a couple of years I thought . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | For years they went on and on and on and everything they took and that was from eight o'clock in the morning was either from Marks and Spencers or British Home Stores . |
| 16 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 17 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 18 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 19 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |
| 20 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 21 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 22 | For years we had requests from political people , parties , you know , around the country , to allow other ministers to go forward and we said ‘ No ’ . |
| 23 | For years we had studiously avoided visiting the island of Bali on the quite false assumption that its international airport and beach hotels placed it beyond our professional interest . |
| 24 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 25 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 26 | For years we urged rulers there to let their people go and to make their people free . |
| 27 | For years we plodded on : bought a house , had two kids , never really knew what the other was thinking . |
| 28 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 29 | For years she 'd been so meek , so biddable to this man , and all for what ? |
| 30 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |