Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
2 | I guess erm with all the contacts you 've made over the years you 're still gon na have phone calls from people to say er what deal have you got for me this week or whatever ? |
3 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |
4 | New York-born , he has based himself in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , an unfashionable choice by any standards , inspired by the years he spent there studying art and then drama . |
5 | er , progressing through the years I doubt whether samples of the child 's work are kept officially in any other form or anywhere else |
6 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
7 | No they they 've over the years they 've got some very fucking good write ups . |
8 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
9 | When every fixed point on the map has been obliterated by the years we 've spent together , and we wonder how the hell we ever met … ’ |