Example sentences of "years i had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All those years I had been away . |
| 5 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 6 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |