Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says oh she says erm with erm , covering up , covering up that , up the Coke , er , I mean I 've done Coke by years and years and years , I say |
| 2 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 3 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 4 | If all this works it should pique the interest of the rest of the industry , where these kinds of problems have taxed minds for years . |
| 5 | We know , though we can not prove it , that there are some extremely prominent British athletes who have used steroids for years . |
| 6 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 7 | I have read Punch for years through the public library . |