Example sentences of "they have [verb] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the moment they 'd waited years for . |
| 2 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 3 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 4 | ‘ We believe the Tories know of the plans PDAG had for developing Welsh medium education because they 've spent years trying to avoid financing them . |
| 5 | They know from cos they 've had years of experience |
| 6 | The younger drivers were obviously under heavy pressure from their teams : they had spent years getting into the sport and they were being threatened with dismissal . |
| 7 | In a classic experiment in the 1930s , J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle asked subjects to recite a Longfellow poem , The Village Smith , that they had learned years before in school . |
| 8 | But the men look , refreshingly , as if they have spent years away from the studio mirror . |