Example sentences of "years and [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white stubble on his fleshless jaw was a reproach to my twenty-four years and suddenly I felt an inadequate city-bred softie . |
| 2 | ‘ I have lived with my husband for twenty years and still I do not know him . ’ |
| 3 | I did hairdressing for five years and then I had a job as a manicurist at Claridges . |
| 4 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 5 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 6 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |