Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] for many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic .
2 The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years .
3 From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years .
4 The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more .
5 The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found .
6 He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief .
7 He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years .
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