Example sentences of "those years [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 2 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 5 | All those years ago he knew things and said that services should be replanned in London , but did nothing whatever about it . |
| 6 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 7 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 8 | This , of course , was exactly what the heroines of women 's magazine stories felt in those years when they decided to chuck New York and go home to marry Henry . |
| 9 | All those years when we could have been together . ’ |
| 10 | Did you keep in touch with Sir Conrad over all those years when he was away ? ’ |