Verbs: tenses and aspects (demo)

[Broken Saddle] I'm the owner of the Broken Saddle Riding Company, have been for the last eleven years. I used to be in the horse racing industry back in New Jersey, worked around horse racing. I wasn't making any money, and the woman I was seeing at the time decided that she wanted to come to Santa Fe. So I decided to come along with her, because I was very much in love. … I started this eleven years ago. Came up with the name 'Broken Saddle', because when I started the business, my saddle broke. And I 've been doing it now full-time for the last nine years. It took me about two years two get it going and it's been just a lot of fun. For the last nine years we've been riding in the hills. Silver, turquoise mines, the canyons.
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[Seeing the Light] I'd like to welcome you to Birmingham. I'm here with Sabine in the custard factory. It used to be a factory that made custard, which is a milked-based pudding. The place was emptied in about 1978 and it was a furniture warehouse for about ten years and then it was bought by a guy called Benny Gray, who is an entrepreneur but has actually turned this into a world-class building for the media. 
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[Seeing the Light] I'll talk to you a little bit now about the agency… We're ten years old and the agency grew because I used to be a photographer. That was my job. I was self-employed and about ten years ago I actually wrote a book about how you survive as a photographer. … People told me that it was a crazy idea to write a business book for artists… I self-published the book. I had about 2000 copies made and over the course of the next two years sold them out… And word started to get round that 'Seeing the Light' in Birmingham and myself were creating a new way of networking producers and potential buyers. The agency has since grown from – the first year I think we turned over 15,000 pounds and last year we turned over a quarter of a million pounds. 
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[Bishopswood Centre] The whole thing started back in 1988 in a temporary building. We're on a national grid substation site, which is like a big transformer really, so all the electricity that comes to all homes in Worcestershire and Herefordshire gets transformed here from high voltage to lower voltage. And often these sites are on good sort of nature sites, so it's surrounded by really good woodland. And they'd been running some <break/> a few nature trails and guided walks from the centre. And back in 1988, the national grid approached the local authority to see if they'd be interested in setting up a centre. So that's really how it all started. It's grown since then and ten years ago this building was built, which is still one of the model buildings in Europe, I guess, that's been built along environmental guidelines with education in mind.
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[Permaculture Credit Union] <sp>Philip:</sp> I think it was early in '97 when people first started talking about 'Look, can't we do something about a different kind of organization to help people along …', and so they started organizing in '97 and by the end of '99, somewhere in the fall of '99, Nora and I became pretty headway involved. Actually, we were going to meetings for almost a year before that. <sp>Nora:</sp> But I said today it's ironic we've been open two years today. <sp>Philip:</sp> Yes, we opened two years ago today.
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[American Cattle Farm] My Dad grew up in Oklahoma. And that's where his folks were and my mother came from Ohio. And then ended up here in New Mexico and that's where I was born and have lived ever since. Only for two short years - long years at that time - when the army drafted me because you know that was still in that era when draft was something that everybody faced. And, so for two years I was away from my Santa Fee county, and other than that I've been right here.
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