Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got nothing to show for what I 've won over the years , ’ a distraught Florrie said . |
| 2 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 3 | I 've noticed over the years that the violent attacks are changing subtly . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose we 've mellowed over the years , ’ said Iain . |
| 6 | We want a change from the feudal tenure we 've had over the years . |
| 7 | ‘ You know the trouble we 've had over the years with MPs ’ secretaries ? ’ |
| 8 | I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years . |
| 9 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 10 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 11 | As a pointed representative introduces of Allied Dunbar , their resident representative will look at the mortgage , pension and insurance you 've accumulated over the years and sniff out the costs , sneezes and snivels that could be costly . |
| 12 | The rates of both fatal and other accidents have fluctuated over the years and it is not possible to reach any conclusions concerning long-term trends in socio-economic differences . |
| 13 | Table 8.2 shows how the weights have altered over the years . |
| 14 | Their numbers have jumped over the years . |
| 15 | ‘ Diana 's insecurities about Camilla have developed through the years , ’ a friend revealed . |
| 16 | Their environments are locally various and the types are often divided from each other by the topography of the country , so that several different regional types have developed over the years . |
| 17 | They make their own glazes from finely ground rocks to recipes that they have developed over the years . |
| 18 | as so many of his colleagues have received over the years . |
| 19 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 20 | The general conclusion that emerges from this chapter is that social policy has been a positive force in economic growth though not as powerful a force as some of its protagonists have claimed over the years . |
| 21 | I hope that he will also accept that Conservative Members have used the existing procedure to delay legislation which they have disliked over the years , which is why we want to change it . |
| 22 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 23 | However the very quirks and obscure family traditions which have accrued over the years can intimidate newcomers . |
| 24 | The baskets of fruit behind the sink and hob were specially created to match the Villeroy & Boch china that the Mills have collected over the years . |
| 25 | We do appreciate you Steffi , for everything you have done over the years and for that special week in Brighton . |
| 26 | However small it was ( and whether it is just or not ) , I have felt over the years that the Halton experience has enabled me ( despite my background ) to bridge the gap between those far off days , and reaching the rank of sergeant pilot , and the mid-war years when , in a few months , there was swift passage through the roles of flight commander , squadron commander , staff officer and station commander . |
| 27 | The public appears unaware that departments have moved over the years from a production orientation , where individuals were matched to available services , to a marketing orientation where departments seek to establish customers ' needs through individual assessment and meet them individually by care management . |
| 28 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 29 | One of my favourite photograph frames that I have made over the years is a 15-cm ( 6-in ) square piece of card , into the centre of which a heart-shape aperture is cut about 7. 5cm ( 3in ) high . |
| 30 | 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 . |