Example sentences of "the years [pers pn] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they they 've over the years they 've got some very fucking good write ups . |
| 2 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 3 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 4 | The best of british waterski-ing is on show this weekend at Kirtons Farm just off the M4 … over the years we 've produced 5 world records … 6 world champions … 8 european records … 55 european champions and 21 team golds … some success story which should continue in the masters competition which takes off tomorrow and reaches the finals on sunday afternoon … |
| 5 | Over the years we 've enjoyed annual family holidays without feeling the pinch and we 've built up good relationships with our neighbours and the surrounding community . |
| 6 | We 've tried all sorts of things erm and we 've erm sort of erm included erm Lesley 's Elmore Support Team has come and talked to him and tried to support him as well , so over the years we have done all sorts of things to try and support him , as I have to try and support all sorts of people . |
| 7 | She had loved him , almost obsessively , since the age of sixteen and , though he had never in any way encouraged her , over the years she had built all her dreams around him . |
| 8 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's always the same person of course , although over the years she has had different names and come in various shapes and sizes . |
| 10 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 11 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 12 | Over the years it has become apparent that certain questions are asked more often than others . |
| 13 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 14 | Item No 1 : over the years I have seen dozens of these items yet , I have still not discovered their true purpose . |
| 15 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 16 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 17 | Over the years I have found various types of hardness-free gravel available commercially , but in general these have been very pale in colour , consisting largely of quartz . |
| 18 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 19 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |