Example sentences of "[prep] year [pers pn] have [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 2 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 3 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 4 | For years we have taken its plentiful , unadulterated supply for granted . |
| 5 | Such dreams would not have fitted with her image and for years she had squashed them firmly , but they were still there and the name Andalucía had brought them racing back . |
| 6 | For years he had preached it , he had believed it intellectually , but never had it become personal to him . |