Example sentences of "for the [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 3 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 4 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 5 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 6 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 7 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 8 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |