Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise of their progress floated back to where Paige and Travis lay hidden for many minutes , before fading away completely . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The situation had existed for many years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | , ( Arthur ) Oswald ( 1868–1939 ) , journalist and heraldist , was born 3 January 1868 in London , where his family had lived for many generations , the only child of Henry Stracey Barron ( 1838–1918 ) , engineer in Constantinople , and his wife Harriet Marshall ( 1836–1918 ) . |