Example sentences of "years she have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 2 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 3 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 4 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 5 | Over the years she had developed a discerning palate and acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of the needs and habitat of vines , the locations of particular vineyards , the reliability of chateaux bottling and the suitability of a wine with a specific food . |
| 6 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 7 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 8 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 9 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 10 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 11 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 12 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 13 | In those hungry , freezing years she had borne and lost two children in the small sod hut in which they lived , before Olga , coming in slightly easier times , had survived . |
| 14 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 15 | But during these last few years she had felt tired , weary . |
| 16 | For two years she had awaited the turn of events before deciding which side to join , while maintaining a mobilized army . |
| 17 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 18 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 19 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 20 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 21 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 22 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 23 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |
| 24 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 25 | Over the years she had learned to stay two steps ahead of him . |
| 26 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 27 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 28 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 29 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 30 | Through the years she had sometimes half dreamed of it . |