Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 2 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 3 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 4 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 5 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 6 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 7 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 8 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 9 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 10 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 13 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 14 | After all these years he was still afraid . |
| 15 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 16 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 17 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 20 | I have a watertight cover for all those years I was with the Black June . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 23 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By about 1930 she had ceased painting , though for several more years she made small , colourful , increasingly abstract water-colours . |
| 30 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |