Example sentences of "all the years [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 2 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In all the years you 've known me , I 've never taken what was n't mine , ’ he said in a hard voice . |
| 4 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 5 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 6 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |