Example sentences of "[coord] over the years [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 The property was bought by the Blandy family in 1884 , and over the years they have farmed the estate and improved the gardens .
2 Movies are a medium of communication , and over the years they have developed their own language of expression .
3 One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers .
4 I 've never needed it , and over the years it has accumulated .
5 And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions .
6 Buddy Holly has been a very big influence to me ever since I was a kid and over the years I have read articles and watched documentaries about his life .
7 Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness .
8 began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough .
9 It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her .
10 Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company .
11 ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says .
12 When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled .
13 but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken
14 Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning .
15 But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on .
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