Example sentences of "the years [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |
| 2 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 3 | Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students . |
| 4 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 5 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 6 | Over the years we had often talked about Elsie and Simon and Elsie 's sudden departure but my mother had never mentioned this most important fact . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the years we have always striven to improve on trolley safety , ’ said spokeswoman Wendy Godfrey . |
| 8 | I have found that over the years we have never had a problem with the Michelin tyres and they offer excellent value for money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . |
| 11 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 12 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |