Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 2 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 3 | I read many years ago that houses are part of the really the last true free market |
| 4 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 5 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 6 | I remember many years ago , we had friends who had a fishing boat , er herring drifter , and in Fraserburgh the there 's a young lad going out with them for a night 's fishing and it was a beautiful summer 's night ! |
| 7 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 8 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 9 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 10 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 11 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 12 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 13 | We made many years ago . |
| 14 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 15 | He has many years experience in carpet retail selling . |
| 16 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 17 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 18 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 19 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 20 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 21 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 22 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 23 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 24 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 25 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 26 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 27 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 28 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 29 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 30 | It was purely for ‘ practical reasons ’ , as he wrote many years later , that Hardy abandoned his fruitless attempts to publish poetry in favour of writing fiction , for which there was a lively demand throughout the 19th century . |