Example sentences of "him for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't thought about him for years . |
| 2 | The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come . |
| 3 | He had a house in Gloucestershire and another at Kensington Palace , and staff who had been with him for years , accustomed to his simple and masculine lifestyle and accustomed to ruling it . |
| 4 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 5 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 6 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 7 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 8 | He had n't seen him for years but knew of his bass playing . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 10 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 11 | ‘ Have n't seen him for years . ’ |
| 12 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 13 | One source close to Charles — 44 today — who has worked with him for years , said last night : ‘ It is incredible — almost impossible to believe that it is true . |
| 14 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 15 | There 'd be free drinks for him for years in the Wise Serpent in Micklethwaite Road , Fulham . |
| 16 | ‘ Fergie has made a big mistake and I 'm sure the decision will haunt him for years to come . ’ |
| 17 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
| 18 | For instance , I mean er my boyfriend , excuse me , I 've been er living with him for years , and I have a child . |
| 19 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 20 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 22 | I 've known him for years . |
| 23 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 24 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 25 | Knew him for years and years . |
| 26 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 27 | He let his house in Chelsea furnished for the year , with the usual proviso that his own staff should remain to run it — he has a housekeeper who has been with him for years , and one daily maid . |
| 28 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 29 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 30 | I prepare myself to lose him for years and years . |