Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 2 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 5 | ‘ In all the years you 've known me , I 've never taken what was n't mine , ’ he said in a hard voice . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 8 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 9 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 10 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 11 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 12 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |
| 13 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 14 | In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . |
| 15 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 16 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 17 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 18 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |