Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations .
2 We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’
3 Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years .
4 Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations .
5 He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision .
6 This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment .
7 I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before .
8 In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years .
9 Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years .
10 Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered .
11 She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest .
12 It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game .
13 For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years .
14 She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre .
15 By that time , I had listened to so many commercials , and studied their language in such detail , that I was tired of the whole subject .
16 In the time between the world had changed in so many ways .
17 He knew he had failed at so many things , but never as a teacher , never as that .
18 Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson .
19 Hubert wanted to tramp across as many mountains as possible , and he assumed that Barbara wanted to do the same .
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