Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 2 | So er can I suggest that we actually ask the the Recreation Ground Committee to look at these problems over the er I do n't think there are any significant problems actually after the , after the Easter weekend fortunately , but just to have er in reply to the city football club , because they are concerned , and have been I have to say for many years , so it 's not unusual . |
| 3 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 4 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ I have worked for many centuries to lift it , Nuadu , but it is a long hard task , for the punishment was to be eternal . ’ |
| 6 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 7 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 8 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 9 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 10 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 11 | If this House were to apply such a principle it would involve going beyond what any of the authorities have decided , departing from such decisions as Slater v. Burnley Corporation ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation which have stood for many years and would involve making new law . |
| 12 | Very best wishes to you and we hope you keep painting for many years to come . |
| 13 | " We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we 've had for many months , " said Cowslip . |
| 14 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 15 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 16 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 17 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 18 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 19 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 20 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 21 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |