Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has been probably since the foundation of the club . |
| 2 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 3 | Our most dutiful and saintly brother was himself healed of his lameness by her , and has been ever since her particular squire and servant . |
| 4 | It 's nice and cool inside the cellar , and not damp , though I guess it can only be just above the water table , and my father seems to know what he 's doing and is confident that the explosive has n't become unstable , but I think he 's nervous about it and has been ever since the Bomb Circle . |
| 5 | Therefore the new girl became my best friend and has been ever since ( with a few eruptions ! ) because she is a very loyal , trustworthy , non-possessive , generous and kind girl . |
| 6 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 7 | The 28 year old has been there since for 13 months . |
| 8 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
| 9 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll have been there since lunchtime like as not . |
| 11 | It must have been there since breakfast . |
| 12 | He has taught in schools and universities in Ireland and in France , and is now Reader in French in this university , having been here since nineteen sixty six . |
| 13 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 14 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 15 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 16 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 17 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 18 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 19 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 20 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 21 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 22 | He had been there since his early morning session with Tolonen , unaware of how his fate had hung in the balance in the interim , but Li Yuan did not summon him at once . |
| 23 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 24 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 25 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 26 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been here since 8am , and nothing . |
| 28 | I 'm , I 'm asking , I 've been here since Saturday |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been here since the end of April , ’ Lynnette replied . |
| 30 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |