Example sentences of "the years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 2 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 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 | I never knew her young , but she has never grown older in the years since I began to sit with this hareem . |
| 5 | Over the years since it was set up in 1982 , the Foundation has provided funds for the purchase of teaching equipment , the development of Library services , the restoration of much-loved features of the University gardens , a scholarship for under-privileged students from overseas , the publication of monographs , and improvements to sports facilities . |
| 6 | In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing . |
| 7 | , 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Groove Tubes has had success through the years because we tell the truth about tubes ( and tube amps ) . |
| 11 | I do n't think they 've had a lot of trouble really speaking with Walsall supporters over the years because they seem to be er go to support the club not to fight and er |
| 12 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 13 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 14 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 15 | There was no going back now , no way to rewrite the years as she had known them . |
| 16 | Their Lordships held that such consent can not be given or implied by a course of conduct over the years as it is important in the interests of both the local authority and the public that consent should not be accidental or informal . |
| 17 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 18 | Steady sums , increasing over the years as he 's become more pious . |
| 19 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |