Example sentences of "the years [pers pn] have [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Movies are a medium of communication , and over the years they have developed their own language of expression . |
| 2 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 4 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 5 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 6 | Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . " |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 9 | Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning . |
| 10 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ In all the years you 've known me , I 've never taken what was n't mine , ’ he said in a hard voice . |
| 13 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |