Example sentences of "over the years [pers pn] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries . |
| 2 | Over the years they had become friends of the family and had been granted privileges — one of which was limited entry to the Domain . |
| 3 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 4 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 5 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 6 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 7 | Over the years it has become apparent that certain questions are asked more often than others . |
| 8 | Alas , over the years I have become far too familiar with your greedy , grasping little ways . ’ |