Example sentences of "[prep] all these 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |