Example sentences of "over [art] years [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 2 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 3 | Over the years we had often talked about Elsie and Simon and Elsie 's sudden departure but my mother had never mentioned this most important fact . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the years we have always striven to improve on trolley safety , ’ said spokeswoman Wendy Godfrey . |
| 5 | I have found that over the years we have never had a problem with the Michelin tyres and they offer excellent value for money . |
| 6 | Over the years we did n't have quite so much work to do with recording which tyre was on which bus because he took it over , but it was right up until I retired in , well five years ago that we were paying tyres that way . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the years we lost so many because there was so much we did n't know . |
| 8 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |
| 9 | Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students . |
| 10 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 11 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 12 | but over the years you sit there and ya you know |
| 13 | Butler and Stokes write , " Partisanship over the individual 's lifetime has some of the quality of a photographic reproduction that deteriorates with time : it is a fairly sharp copy of the parents ' original at the beginning of political awareness , but over the years it becomes somewhat blurred , although remaining easily recognizable . " |
| 14 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 15 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 16 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 17 | This , on my part , was a massive concession , since over the years I have almost without exception refused to indulge in self-publicising on the box . |