Example sentences of "[adj -er] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 4 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 5 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |
| 6 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 7 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 8 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 9 | Apart from that there is no strong reason for one method rather than another although as the first year has lower production than later years it would be difficult in terms of wearing out to argue for the reducing balance method . |
| 10 | In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties . |
| 11 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |