Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] these years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Why is it , do you think , that after all these years , the dominant sound around Ali is silence ? |
| 4 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 5 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |