Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 6 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 9 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 10 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |