Example sentences of "over the years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |
| 2 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 3 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 4 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 5 | Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand , with each new undergraduate intake , and have had to alter my terminology to suit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 8 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 9 | Over the years I had hooked and lost many , and finally decided that there were far better ways of spending my time than in pursuit of these fractious , unpredictable , unco-operative brutes . |
| 10 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 11 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 12 | Over the years I 've encountered a fair number of weird and wonderful marketing ideas , but perhaps none more eye-catching than Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Dinner Classics ’ series . |
| 13 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 14 | Over the years I have done all kinds of work with horses , hay-making , spreading and harrowing manure and hauling coal down from the road on a sledge . |
| 15 | Buddy Holly has been a very big influence to me ever since I was a kid and over the years I have read articles and watched documentaries about his life . |
| 16 | Q Over the years I 've accumulated a motley collection of kitchen knives , none of which are very sharp . |
| 17 | Over the years I 've noticed ‘ job-title consciousness ’ increasing dramatically . |
| 18 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 19 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 20 | Over the years I have found various types of hardness-free gravel available commercially , but in general these have been very pale in colour , consisting largely of quartz . |
| 21 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 22 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 23 | Over the years I have discovered that the subjects I enjoy doing most of all are not far from my home ; my garden , conservatory , figures usually doing something , are my favourites and my family and friends are commandeered regularly for this purpose . |
| 24 | Over the years I 've learnt to mistrust claims for better equipment based on small improvements in lab results , but the figures for the Aurora are in a different league . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You know , it 's funny but over the years I can always remember you saying : me , my , mine . |
| 27 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 28 | Over the years I have developed a profound belief that the Foreign Office has criteria entirely its own . |
| 29 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 30 | This , on my part , was a massive concession , since over the years I have almost without exception refused to indulge in self-publicising on the box . |