Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 2 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 3 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 4 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 5 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 6 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 7 | Been with me for many years . |
| 8 | With me for many years . ’ |
| 9 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 10 | He was a remarkable parliamentarian and , as a Minister , he was with me for many years . |
| 11 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 12 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 13 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 14 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 15 | He has n't been near me for three years . ’ |
| 16 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 17 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 18 | Actually Edward 's known me for ten years , but there we are . |
| 19 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 20 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 21 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 22 | This , remember , is W. H. Auden , whom for many years some people in England have regarded as himself too anxious not to bore , too anxious always to amuse . |
| 23 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 24 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 25 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 26 | Town have n't beaten them for two years … |
| 27 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 28 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 29 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 30 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |