Example sentences of "i 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 . |