Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 2 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 3 | My ambition at the moment is to make sure I qualify for this year 's Open Championship . ’ |
| 4 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 6 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 7 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
| 8 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 9 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 10 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 11 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 12 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 13 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 14 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 15 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 16 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 17 | You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation . |
| 18 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 19 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 20 | The accounts that you have for this year , have been rearranged . |
| 21 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 22 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 23 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 24 | Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way . |
| 25 | Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport . |
| 26 | The Bradwell School Board in the beginning comprised Rev A.C. Woodhouse , Messrs Ward , Wyllie , C.W. Powell ( Solicitor ) , and it appears they struggled for some years . |
| 27 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 28 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 29 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 30 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |