Example sentences of "but over the years [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 5 | Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning . |
| 6 | but over the years you sit there and ya you know |
| 7 | But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on . |