Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually Edward 's known me for ten years , but there we are . |
| 2 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 4 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 5 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 6 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 7 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 8 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 9 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 10 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 11 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 12 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 13 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 14 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 15 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |
| 16 | Rick 's old agent , however , had not heard from him in ten years , and could neither confirm nor deny the rumour . |
| 17 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 18 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 19 | Yes , he can continue at that level of a hundred and ninety but he 's obviously going to have to pay more , because he 's only paid for it for ten years , or he can reduce it down to the original amount . |
| 20 | so he says got away with it for ten years |
| 21 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 22 | You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time . |
| 23 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 24 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |