Example sentences of "[adj] years [pers pn] 've [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
| 2 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 3 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 4 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 5 | Karen I I 'm forty-seven and I ca n't work me mother out , so , no chance for you working her out , few years you 've known her . |
| 6 | For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine . |
| 7 | Six years I 've had that . |
| 8 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 9 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 10 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 11 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 12 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 13 | He 's told friends , " All these years I 've thrown away money on that child . " |
| 14 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 16 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 17 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
| 18 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 19 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 20 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 21 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 22 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 23 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 25 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 26 | For many years I 've hated you and it seems so — pointless . ’ |
| 27 | And for several myopic , workaholic years I 've believed they were still white , have n't I ? |
| 28 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 29 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 30 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |