Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 2 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 3 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 5 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 6 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 7 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 8 | They stayed on in Constantinople and became the nucleus of the Varangian Guard , which lasted for many centuries . |
| 9 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 10 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 11 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 12 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 13 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 14 | Sir Peter , who served for many years with 22nd SAS Regt. and SAS Group , is the first general to wear the badge in the SAS sand-coloured beret . |
| 15 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 16 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 17 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 18 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 19 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 20 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 21 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 22 | On two consecutive years the venue , one used for many conferences , tried to cancel our booking . |
| 23 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 24 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 25 | We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense . |
| 26 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 27 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 28 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 29 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 30 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |