Example sentences of "[pron] for years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |
| 2 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 3 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 4 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 5 | Also , the direct experience of ‘ contact ’ with the Führer through his major speeches , which for years had served as the ritualistic form of plebiscitary ‘ meeting ’ between the Leader and his people , to be repeated at regular intervals , took place only infrequently after 1942 . |
| 6 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 7 | NEWS that an investigation has been started into the possible mis-assessment of ethnic minority children in Strathclyde has highlighted an issue which for years has been simmering in Britain 's classrooms and education departments . |
| 8 | Though clearly , whatever the logic of the situation , Hitler could still rely upon substantial bonds of undying allegiance among his most loyal supporters , especially of course those who for years had been exposed to the full brunt of Party organization and indoctrination , there seems little doubt that the mass base of unquestioned trust in Hitler was already in 1942 beginning to give way . |
| 9 | Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well . |
| 10 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 11 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 12 | The amateur game was in a healthy state , much of the credit being due to men like Gerald Micklem and Raymond Oppenheimer , who for years had given encouragement to every movement that stimulated youth to play golf . |
| 13 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 14 | The conflict of interest is glaringly obvious , but the only likely alternative in the current parliament seems to be the leader of the opposition Liberal Party — Jean Chretien , a French Canadian who for years represented Quebec ridings as a minister in Pierre Trudeau 's era . |
| 15 | Accompanying the Bear to Fairford is the man who for years controlled the giant aircraft . |
| 16 | Pardoe is delighted by the prospect of going to market , although he 's reluctant to undercut the small shops who for years have kept the organic movement going . |
| 17 | Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force . |
| 18 | The missing minister was Mrs Lynda Chalker ( Overseas Aid ) , who for years has retained her first husband in her name , since Lynda Landa sounds like an entry for the Eurovision song contest . |
| 19 | It 's all thanks to the efforts of two cinema buffs from Gloucester who for years dreamt of owning their own picture palace . |
| 20 | The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come . |
| 21 | ‘ Fergie has made a big mistake and I 'm sure the decision will haunt him for years to come . ’ |
| 22 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 23 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 24 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 25 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 26 | The male , public school judiciary will be with us for years to come . |