Example sentences of "the years [pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again .
2 With the years they had drawn closer .
3 Over the years they had worked well and closely together until the political situation in Russia underwent the first dramatic changes .
4 Over the years they have carved out a powerful position within the town 's antique trade .
5 And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it .
6 Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after .
7 When every fixed point on the map has been obliterated by the years we 've spent together , and we wonder how the hell we ever met … ’
8 Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries .
9 It is the goodness of the years we have lived through , of the old time when we did this and that , when we dwelt here or there .
10 We have always been interviewed simultaneously , which can be advantageous : over the years we have worked out quite a double act .
11 But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on .
12 Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock .
13 Alas , over the years I have become far too familiar with your greedy , grasping little ways . ’
14 Over the years I have done all kinds of work with horses , hay-making , spreading and harrowing manure and hauling coal down from the road on a sledge .
15 ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’
16 Over the years he had worked hard into the night , had attended every lecture and tutorial , had scarcely taken time to attend student functions such as debates , except that these gave him fresh ideas ; he never spoke at them .
17 Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire .
18 Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer .
19 So do you feel that , I mean in the , in the years you 've worked here is the women as important as they always were in the factory ?
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