Example sentences of "years [coord] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 2 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ Centre 42 had the place for years and had done fuck-all with it ’ , observes Miles . |
| 4 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 6 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 7 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 8 | One school had been a major spearhead of RBL in the county for many years and had invested considerable thought , enterprise and resources in library provision and study skills . |
| 9 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 10 | Tommy had managed the little sweet factory for many years and had lived above it and brought up his family there . |
| 11 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 12 | She worked as a tailoress with the Tailoring Guild for many years and had made lots of good friends amongst her work-mates . |
| 13 | He had been a friend and ally of the president for many years and had served as chief of staff when Reagan was governor of California . |
| 14 | He had been in the Parachute Regiment for twenty years and had served in Borneo , the Oman , Northern Ireland and the South Atlantic . |
| 15 | I had worked there , and that was when I was sixty five , so I 'd worked there all my working life , apart from the , the war years and had served under quite a number of people really . |
| 16 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 17 | The Levys had been keen supporters and benefactors of the Trust for many years and had given hundreds of thousands of pounds to various projects in their lifetime . |
| 18 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 19 | Min Chong had also lived in China for many years and had taken part in the Long March . |
| 20 | However , it was also reported that Neamy was an Iraqi dissident who had lived in Sweden for several years and had returned home the previous year to pay a brief visit to his family . |
| 21 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 22 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 23 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 24 | A Nottingham family , the Keatings had taken their holidays in the area for many years and had settled nearby in 1934 . |
| 25 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 26 | I had n't taken part in a sponsored walk for many years and had forgotten the exhilaration of crossing the long awaited finishing line . |
| 27 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 28 | He had served the congregation as Society Steward for over 30 years and had held many other offices as well . |
| 29 | On this basis the UK had held its own relative to the USA over 25 years but had fallen below the average of the six , certainly below Japan , West Germany and France ; indeed Japan overtook the UK in 1972 , West Germany in the early 1960s , and France in the late 1960s , but on this calculation the UK still lay ahead of Italy . |