Example sentences of "years i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 3 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 4 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 5 | All those years I had been away . |
| 6 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 7 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 8 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 9 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 10 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 13 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 14 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 15 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 16 | Linebacker Gary Plummer said : ‘ We have n't given the fans a heck of a lot to cheer in the seven years I 've been here . |
| 17 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 18 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 19 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 20 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 21 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 22 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 23 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 24 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 25 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 26 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 27 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 28 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 29 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 30 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |