Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 2 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 3 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 4 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 5 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 6 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 7 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 8 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 9 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 10 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 11 | People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done . |
| 12 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 13 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |