Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government deregulation has exposed previously protected service industries to competition and forced managers to make the job cuts they should have made years ago . |
| 2 | One time , after he had done that , I found somewhere dark , and the Bony Lady cried ; cried as she should have done years back . |
| 3 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 4 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 6 | It must have taken years and years — ? |
| 7 | Not even in the way that Olvia must have died years ago to serve the Emperor — but to sate one mad woman 's vengeance . |
| 8 | It could have started years back you know but who 's to say . |
| 9 | This could have taken years , so the President decided on more drastic action . |
| 10 | We 'd have died years ago . |
| 11 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 12 | In the first chapter we discussed the problems of the application backlog , where user departments may have to wait years for the implementation of systems . |
| 13 | They may have worked years for long hours in restaurants . |
| 14 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 15 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 16 | In the normal course of events he would have died years ago . |
| 17 | Harley O. Staggers , a Democratic member of the House for West Virginia , initiating a bill proposing a point-of-sale background check which , whilst on the face of it more stringent than the Brady bill , was full of loopholes and would have taken years to implement . |
| 18 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |
| 19 | I suspected that Gillian was getting rid of Wyatt as a way of breaking with her father ( who did n't even come to the wedding , incidentally ) and pointing out to her Mum what she ought to have done years before . |
| 20 | Recognising the hopelessness of her situation , she had resolved to do what she ought to have done years ago , and systematically banished him from her heart . |
| 21 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |