Example sentences of "[pron] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 2 | And I years its quite lovely looking back |
| 3 | You know I years ago I had a twig you know , an ordinary twig , I stuck it into the ground after three long years , all that was was a stick ! |
| 4 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 5 | My years of dancing , beginning long before I was anorexic , have made me very body-conscious , both in how my body looks and how it feels . |
| 6 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 7 | ‘ Never had anything like that in all my years . ’ |
| 8 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 9 | No time in my life , however , is more clear in my mind than my years in the Waaf . |
| 10 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 11 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 12 | ‘ Even after all my years in the game , I 'm still surprised we lost having played so well . ’ |
| 13 | I too am frequently taken to be older than my years . |
| 14 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 15 | It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing . |
| 16 | Reviewing my years in Burma , it is I hope clear how one who went out to preach a gospel also heard another gospel , a complementary one , and learned from the gentle , tolerant Buddhists of Burma something close to what the Buddha tried to teach . |
| 17 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 18 | IN all my years in political and business life I have never seen anything like the pressure put on the rebels in Westminster on Wednesday night . |
| 19 | Even though I use many examples and experiences from my years with that company , the views expressed are mine and if my recollections or impressions vary from others ' that is to my account , and not ICI 's . |
| 20 | For me , however , circumstances have changed somewhat since my first love affair with the States and my fascination has taken on a maturity that matches my years and experiences on the North American continent . |
| 21 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 22 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 23 | ‘ Schatzie , I am going to pay you what for a man of my years is a great compliment . |
| 24 | It rewards my years of hard work a hundredfold . |
| 25 | In all my years at the club I can not remember such a sensational line up of prizes as are on offer here . |
| 26 | This was the happiest of all my years on the island . |
| 27 | ‘ What about all my years of work ? |
| 28 | I know electric toasters do go back even beyond my years but er okay ? |
| 29 | I have spent my Years in collecting , cultivating and improving all the different Kinds of Trees , Plants , Fruits , and Flowers , that I could possibly obtain ; and in doing this , have spared neither Cost nor Pains . |
| 30 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |