Example sentences of "[verb] there for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 2 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 3 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 4 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 5 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 7 | The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent . |
| 8 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 9 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 10 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |