Example sentences of "done [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 3 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 4 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 5 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 6 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 7 | Patching is more effective if done in the pre-school years . |
| 8 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 9 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |