Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] for many " in BNC.

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1 My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic .
2 May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’
3 FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing .
4 I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets .
5 I have worked for many centuries to lift it , Nuadu , but it is a long hard task , for the punishment was to be eternal . ’
6 I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years .
7 ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling .
8 I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction .
9 I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women .
10 He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity .
11 For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying .
12 She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years .
13 Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years .
14 The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years .
15 From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years .
16 " We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we 've had for many months , " said Cowslip .
17 John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years .
18 The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years .
19 And so we have lived for many an age . ’
20 It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years .
21 We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable .
22 Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years .
23 In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine .
24 They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years .
25 [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty .
26 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
27 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
28 Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years .
29 If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world .
30 The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more .
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