Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] for many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 2 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 3 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 4 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 5 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 6 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 7 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 8 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 9 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 10 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 11 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 12 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 13 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 14 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 15 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 16 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 17 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 18 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 19 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 20 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 21 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 22 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 23 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 24 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 25 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |
| 26 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 27 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 28 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 29 | He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years . |