Example sentences of "in the years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
2 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
3 | But then Florian Jones is your one great weakness , I suppose , since it 's obvious that you have n't learnt a thing in the years since you first got involved with him . |
4 | In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing . |
5 | I never knew her young , but she has never grown older in the years since I began to sit with this hareem . |
6 | Lear 's letters to Gould in the years after they parted company were long , funny , warm and chatty ; but they were also the letters of a nostalgic and lonely expatriate . |