Example sentences of "those years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
| 2 | All those years I had been away . |
| 3 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 4 | And Jenny said all those years I had a crush on that teacher she said and I thought he never noticed me . |
| 5 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 6 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 7 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you know , all those years I watched my Kate yearn for you , it used to amaze me . |
| 9 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 10 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |