Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 2 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 3 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 4 | The University Library has built up over the years one of the finest collections of African studies in higher education . |
| 5 | Some investment occurs , though , simply to replace capital which has worn out during the year — such ‘ wearing out ’ of capital is called ‘ depreciation ’ or ‘ capital consumption ’ . |
| 6 | The former England winger said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . ’ |
| 8 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 9 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 11 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 12 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 13 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 14 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 15 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 16 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 17 | On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year . |
| 18 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 19 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 20 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 21 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 22 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 23 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 24 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 25 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |
| 26 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 27 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 28 | And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot . |