Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
2 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
3 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
4 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
5 | He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years . |
6 | Houghton has worked with them for nearly three years but at times still feels like a stranger . |
7 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
8 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
9 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
10 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
11 | WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years . |
12 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
13 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
14 | I 've worked with him for nearly two years . |
15 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
16 | Watkins probably heard mention of these ideas , the seeds from which may have lain dormant in him for over fifty years . |
17 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
18 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
19 | I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy . |
20 | Sam 's cousin , Debbie went out with him for over six years . |
21 | Milton Humason who worked with him for over 30 years called him a ‘ brilliant leader ’ and wrote , ‘ He was sure of himself — of what he wanted to do , and of how to do it . ’ |
22 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
23 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
24 | She had n't seen him for almost five years and yet — less than twenty-four hours later — she 'd been not only happily returning his kisses , but also moaning with pleasure at the feel of his hands on her body . |
25 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
26 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
27 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
28 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
29 | I was very , very sorry , but I just left the letter around and did n't see him for about three years . |
30 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |