Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 2 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 3 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 4 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 5 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 6 | He has n't been near me for three years . ’ |
| 7 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 8 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 9 | Actually Edward 's known me for ten years , but there we are . |
| 10 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 13 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 14 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 15 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 16 | Town have n't beaten them for two years … |
| 17 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 18 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 19 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 20 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 21 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |
| 22 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 23 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 24 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 25 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 26 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 27 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 28 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 29 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 30 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |