Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy McIlroy , once an Old Trafford prodigy himself , reckons Giggs is the most exciting player he has seen for years . |
| 2 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 3 | of reduction of er emissions then in fact you have got to reduce the consumption of erm hydrocarbons er as interesting as the Liberal party has said for years but now er pretends it had nothing to do with erm , er V A T on fuel . |
| 4 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 5 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 6 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 7 | He has worried for years , |
| 8 | In the game between human and bacteria , the ‘ shadow of the future ’ is normally long since a typical human can be expected to live for years from any given starting-point . |
| 9 | She is admired by business , which is looking forward to an industrial policy for France : something it has lacked for years . |
| 10 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 11 | Sir Jimmy Savile has worked for years with victims of spinal injuries , and now he 's spearheading a campaign to cut the number of accidents at work — accidents which could , in many cases , have been easily avoided . |
| 12 | Scudamore has tried for years to win the National . |
| 13 | She 's has survived for years in the tough world of clubs to eventually come out top . |
| 14 | But , as fate would have it , my work has lain for years in a field where I was obliged strictly to keep my political convictions to myself . |
| 15 | Daphne has laboured for years to save the elephant , as dedicated to her task as was Dian Fossey to her gorillas . |
| 16 | With over a quarter of the UK fleet of rigid ( urban delivery ) vehicles over eight years old , high street deliveries are also destined to smell for years . |
| 17 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 18 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 19 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |
| 20 | The most dramatic breakthrough came in 1970 as Courtaulds , the textile giant , was upgrading its machinery and selling off cheaply equipment which had been built to last for years . |
| 21 | Do remember that , contrary to the cynics ' view of built-in obsolescence , most major appliances — refrigerators , stoves , dishwashers and so on — are built to last for years , so , as far as possible , you should keep future changes of circumstances in mind as well as your present needs . |
| 22 | I imagine he had dreamed of doing what he came to do for years before he tightened up his courage . ’ |
| 23 | Stylist Patrick recommended a softer shape for Betty , instead of the severe brushed-back style she 'd worn for years , as well as a complete reconditioning of the ends . |
| 24 | Surely there was no harm in this , just sitting here in her car with David Markham , a man whom after all , she 'd known for years . |
| 25 | The freeze on spirits duty acknowledges , if it does not yet rectify , the wholly unjust domestic tax regime against which the Scotch whisky industry has had to struggle for years . |
| 26 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 27 | If you do it 'll keep moving for years and years and years no problem , but if you let the two of them sit |
| 28 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 29 | Many of them had had to wrestle for years with their consciences and suffer agonies of anxiety and insecurity before they could finally convince themselves that they were included within the elect group of saints which was predestined for heaven . |
| 30 | This terrorist activity brought home to Americans what the United Kingdom and , more recently , the city of London has had to tolerate for years . |