Example sentences of "years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 32 | For years I convinced myself that I hated eating , and loved the dance lessons . |
| 33 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 34 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 35 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . |
| 37 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 38 | ‘ For years I studied photos and maps of it . |
| 39 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 40 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 41 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 42 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 43 | ‘ For 14 years I wore the Army uniform … your uniform . |
| 44 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | ‘ Within 10 years I hope to be the governor of Colorado , ’ he says . |
| 47 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 48 | Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand , with each new undergraduate intake , and have had to alter my terminology to suit . |
| 49 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 50 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 51 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 54 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 55 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 56 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 57 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 58 | For years I wondered what the hell all the fuss was about . |
| 59 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 60 | 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 . |