Example sentences of "[pron] for years [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the direct experience of ‘ contact ’ with the Führer through his major speeches , which for years had served as the ritualistic form of plebiscitary ‘ meeting ’ between the Leader and his people , to be repeated at regular intervals , took place only infrequently after 1942 . |
| 2 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 3 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 4 | The amateur game was in a healthy state , much of the credit being due to men like Gerald Micklem and Raymond Oppenheimer , who for years had given encouragement to every movement that stimulated youth to play golf . |
| 5 | Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well . |
| 6 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 7 | Pardoe is delighted by the prospect of going to market , although he 's reluctant to undercut the small shops who for years have kept the organic movement going . |
| 8 | The missing minister was Mrs Lynda Chalker ( Overseas Aid ) , who for years has retained her first husband in her name , since Lynda Landa sounds like an entry for the Eurovision song contest . |