Example sentences of "years i [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 7 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 8 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 11 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 12 | Three years I took it easy , stayed out of sight , made contacts , laid pathways . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 14 | For years I allowed him to treat me like dirt . |
| 15 | 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 . |