Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 2 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 3 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 . |
| 5 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 6 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 7 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 8 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 9 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 10 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
| 11 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 12 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 13 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 14 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |