Example sentences of "it years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 2 | You should have taken it years ago . |
| 3 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 4 | Looking back on it years later , what struck him most was ‘ the colossal cheek of it all ’ . |
| 5 | If someone bought me an expensive perfumed soap , I would save it — not believing I would ever have another — until I found it years later , grubby and odourless ! |
| 6 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
| 7 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 8 | FUNNY TO reflect that , if the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame was n't a self-stroking shithole concept graveyard for Rolling Stone readers to drape their senile drool over , Vince Clarke would have been in it years ago . |
| 9 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 10 | He wished she had done it years ago . |
| 11 | Yes , he thought , but I should have done it years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ But I did it years ago , ’ said Scarlet , beginning to feel faintly hysterical . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd done it years ago . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed Monteverdi produced a classic early example of the strophic-variation solo aria over a marching ostinato he had come near it years before in ‘ Qual honor ’ in Orfeo ( see p. 274 ) — in ‘ Ohime ch'io cado ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd have done it years ago . ’ |
| 16 | He used to play in it years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ It is — I just wish I 'd thought of it years ago . ’ |
| 18 | But really it was it years without . |
| 19 | I made it years and years ago , when Carrie was a small girl . |
| 20 | erm , Mr knows when he talked about getting rid of all the a ho , our homes that of course , we 're not allowed to get rid of all of our homes , if we were the Tories would have moved it years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Whether Ernie made it years ago , I should n't be surprised . |
| 23 | well I do n't know , but could do with it years ago |
| 24 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 25 | With the er , erm , was it years before that I 've had something like forty or thirty five |
| 26 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 27 | If you 've just bought it from a shop and you 've had it years |
| 28 | You would n't think of doing it years ago |
| 29 | ruined it years ago |
| 30 | I bet you 've had it years have n't you ? |