Example sentences of "[noun] over the years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 2 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 3 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 4 | Q Over the years I 've accumulated a motley collection of kitchen knives , none of which are very sharp . |
| 5 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 6 | ‘ I always thought it would be marriage or nothing for you — especially after the way you 've kept men at arm 's length over the years I 've known you . ’ |
| 7 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 8 | John Bratby R A A Retrospective , Gray Art Gallery , Clarence Road , Hartlepool ( Until April OVER the years they have been more than just good friends the Gray Art Gallery , in Hartlepool , and John Bratby , founder member of the ‘ Kitchen Sink School ’ , and , since 1971 , a full member of the Royal Academy . |