Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 2 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 3 | The disc went missing for many years , and was the subject of at least one book . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I can honestly say that the facts are correct : I am thirty-two , I did live for many years in Scotland , and yes , I do head one of the largest investment corporations in the country . ’ |
| 5 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 6 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 7 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 8 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 9 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 10 | In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . |
| 11 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 12 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 13 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 14 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 15 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 16 | To mark the occassion a farewell dinner was given to Trevor and his wife Barbara at the Post House Hotel in Norwich , attended by Joint M.D. Rod Turnbull , Sales Directors Steve Higgins and Jack Millar , together with many colleagues and customers with whom Trevor had worked for many years . |
| 17 | The couple had lived for many years on a narrow pedestrian street known quite simply as ‘ Behind the Hill ’ ( later Paul Street ) , a useful little short-cut between Palmer Street and Catherine Hill . |
| 18 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 19 | The Benevolent Fund had existed for many years , but it was Harry Barber who first inaugurated in the Essex Section the Links scheme in which elderly and retired members keep in touch with each other for mutual support if required . |
| 20 | The situation had existed for many years . |
| 21 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 22 | Despite the setback , Townsends continued to operate for many years , through Two World Wars , until they were finally absorbed into the Rank , Hovis , McDougall Company . |
| 23 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 24 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 25 | He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years . |