Example sentences of "years [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 2 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 3 | In 1867 , nearly twenty years after coming to the throne of Austria , Francis Joseph was crowned here by that same Count Andrássy who , in the aftermath of 1848 , he had sentenced to death . |
| 4 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 5 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 6 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 7 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 8 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 9 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 10 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 11 | Now at least we have a manager , who after two years of stumbling in the dark , has seen the light . |
| 12 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 13 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 14 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 15 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 16 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 17 | The figures have been released on the day the Samaritans mark forty years of listening to the nation 's problems . |
| 18 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 19 | If a site is being destroyed slowly , only a few finds are brought to the surface at any one time , and it may take years of plotting before the whereabouts of the site becomes apparent . |
| 20 | The Scottish Office , after five years of lobbying by the timber trade , and prompted by European Community farm surpluses , has agreed that marginal farmland previously kept for agriculture can now be used for forestry . |
| 21 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 22 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 23 | After five years of living with the natives and being offered the delicacy of a human thumb by cannibals — a feast which he gracefully declined — Terry was feeling homesick . |
| 24 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 25 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 26 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 27 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
| 28 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 29 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 30 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |