Example sentences of "year [pers pn] 've been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 2 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 3 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 4 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 5 | Five years you 've been at it now ; you should be a concert pianist , and you would be if you had practised . ’ |
| 6 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 7 | Then you are paid 1/80th of the average of all those years ' earnings , for every year you 've been in the scheme . |