Example sentences of "[adj] [det] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all these years they spend . |
| 2 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 3 | He 's told friends , " All these years I 've thrown away money on that child . " |
| 4 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 5 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 7 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 8 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 9 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 10 | Alter all these years I thought the man in our house was my dad , and he was n't . |
| 11 | ‘ All these years I denied my love . |
| 12 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 13 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |
| 14 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 15 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 16 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 17 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 18 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 19 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 20 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 21 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 22 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 23 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 24 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 25 | All those years I had been away . |
| 26 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 27 | And Jenny said all those years I had a crush on that teacher she said and I thought he never noticed me . |
| 28 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know , all those years I watched my Kate yearn for you , it used to amaze me . |
| 30 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |