Example sentences of "years i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet for years I adored him , she thought with horrified wonder . |
| 2 | ‘ For years I believed I did n't have even one person I could call family , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 4 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 5 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 6 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 7 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 8 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 9 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 10 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 11 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 12 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 13 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 14 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 15 | Three years I took it easy , stayed out of sight , made contacts , laid pathways . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 17 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 18 | For years I allowed him to treat me like dirt . |
| 19 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 20 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 21 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 22 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 23 | It 's erm it 's been very interesting actually this last month because erm talk about your sons joining the enemy erm my second son who 's been up in Cheshire for well , twenty years I suppose he 's just been appointed senior art adviser for Devon . |
| 24 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 25 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |