Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 2 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 3 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It grew out of the teaching of stylistics to undergraduates at Lancaster , which and I have shared for several years . |
| 7 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 12 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 13 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 14 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | York-born Andy Smith , who has qualified for this year 's British final at Coventry , will make a rare appearance at Cleveland Park . |
| 17 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 18 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 19 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 20 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 21 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 22 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 23 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 24 | The latter was one of Captain Buck 's SIG men , a Palestinian Jew who had served for several years in the German army . |
| 25 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 26 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 27 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 28 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 29 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 30 | 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 . |