Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 2 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 3 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 4 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 5 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 6 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |
| 7 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 8 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 9 | Cos if your washing machine machine lasts for thirty years they 'd go out of business would n't they ? |
| 10 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |
| 11 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 12 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 13 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 14 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |