Example sentences of "over the years i have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 3 | Over the years I have discovered that the subjects I enjoy doing most of all are not far from my home ; my garden , conservatory , figures usually doing something , are my favourites and my family and friends are commandeered regularly for this purpose . |
| 4 | Seriously , over the years I have seen Annabelle develop many talents and accomplishments . |
| 5 | Item No 1 : over the years I have seen dozens of these items yet , I have still not discovered their true purpose . |
| 6 | ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’ |
| 7 | Alas , over the years I have become far too familiar with your greedy , grasping little ways . ’ |
| 8 | Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand , with each new undergraduate intake , and have had to alter my terminology to suit . |
| 9 | Over the years I have developed a profound belief that the Foreign Office has criteria entirely its own . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 12 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 13 | Over the years I have had a few interesting experiences with computer hardware . |
| 14 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Over the years I have listened to many forceful speeches by the right hon. Gentleman , who always speaks common sense , and I have often agreed with him . |
| 17 | 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 . |