Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 14 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 15 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 16 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 17 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 21 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 22 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 23 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 24 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 25 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 26 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 27 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 28 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 29 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 30 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |