Example sentences of "the years [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 2 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 3 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 4 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 5 | The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart . |
| 6 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 7 | Over the years they have been inducted into the Maori nation in New Zealand , a rare honour , have packed soccer stadiums in Uruguay and Chile which make Wembley look like a park pitch and have successfully led the way for numerous reggae bands to grab a slice of the American popular music market . |
| 8 | John Bratby R A A Retrospective , Gray Art Gallery , Clarence Road , Hartlepool ( Until April OVER the years they have been more than just good friends the Gray Art Gallery , in Hartlepool , and John Bratby , founder member of the ‘ Kitchen Sink School ’ , and , since 1971 , a full member of the Royal Academy . |
| 9 | But all the years we 've been trying . |
| 10 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 11 | Over the years we have been thankful to hear the BBC World Service in Chungking , Kuala Lumpur , Los Angeles , Guyana , Nigeria , Alaska and many other places — and that clear , calm statement of the news spoken with suave detachment in impeccable English has never ceased to satisfy . |
| 12 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 13 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 14 | Thus , over the years it has been used to index reports , trade literature , periodical articles and other similar documents . |
| 15 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 16 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 17 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 18 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 19 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 20 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 21 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 22 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 23 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 24 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 25 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 26 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 27 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 28 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 29 | ‘ And I have heard people keeping your name alive all the years you 've been away . |