Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 2 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 3 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 4 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 5 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 6 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 7 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |