Example sentences of "[pron] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 2 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 3 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 4 | Been with me for many years . |
| 5 | With me for many years . ’ |
| 6 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 7 | He was a remarkable parliamentarian and , as a Minister , he was with me for many years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 11 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 12 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 13 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 14 | Drugs are expensive in primary care , not normally because of the unit cost , but because many patients take them for many years . |
| 15 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 16 | If soft enough to show footprints and vehicle tracks , they retain them for many years . |
| 17 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |
| 18 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 19 | Shoe-buckles , harness fragments and tunic buttons spread outwards from them for many yards when the gradients become steep , marking places where panting packmen and their contemporaries sought easier paths up the slopes . |
| 20 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 21 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 22 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 23 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 24 | This is not to underestimate the Club 's previous social calendar which for many years included successful dinner dances and club socials . |
| 25 | Next door , at eleven o'clock , stood a fine Edwardian house which for many years was called Quetta . |
| 26 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 27 | This will result in limited choice for the consumer and a lack of innovation ( eg British Telecom phone equipment , which for many years was severely limited whilst it was part of the public sector ) . |
| 28 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
| 29 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
| 30 | A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment . |