Example sentences of "the [noun] since [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all .
2 Trafalgar resisted restating the accounts since it did not believe it had done anything wrong .
3 He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago .
4 Perhaps the easiest technique to improve is turning the board since it can be practised in any wind .
5 Phillipon told reporters that Quebec and Nova Scotia are not party to the framework since they had broken ranks with a 1991 provinical agreement to disdain unilateral compensation by earlier this year unveiling vastly discrepant compensation programmes .
6 The move came as a sign of frustration by Britain and Hong Kong over the way China has protested about the proposals since they were announced last October — but has failed to come up with any alternative ahead of elections already scheduled for 1995 .
7 You are both altered by the experience since it does not involve solely issuing orders .
8 Over the hours since she had last confronted him Lisa had forgotten just what an extraordinarily imposing figure he was .
9 She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere .
10 Aubrey 's arrival had augmented the difficulty since he had been given the guest room adjoining Harry 's .
11 ‘ But he 's followed all the rules since he was given political asylum and I think he should be allowed to compete as an individual . ’
12 then I 'm perfectly happy to let Gus take over the responsibility since he did such a great job .
13 It is a home from home for Sue Wilson , who has probably spent as many nights at the camp since it was set up on January 18 as she has at home .
14 Indeed , Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is a clear decision to the contrary since it laid down unequivocally that an act may be an appropriation notwithstanding that it is done with the consent of the owner .
15 The initial construction of the data structure is of little importance to the user since it is rarely performed .
16 George , 61 , and wife Betty , 60 , have had to watch the pennies since he took early retirement when his hospital was privatised .
17 As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’
18 ‘ I 've felt a lot more comfortable on the course since I started seeing him .
19 After penetrating the intestine of the final host the L3 travel to the lungs , probably in the blood since they are found in the alveoli 4-6 hours after experimental infection .
20 On Radio Warsaw in December 1952 WIN was revealed to have been a puppet of the KGB since it was revived in 1948 .
21 She 's refused to go to the baths since she had that cold , but I think she was clever enough to make that an excuse .
22 His authority is based on many years experience in the industry since he started in 1964. is assisted with packing and loading by and .
23 Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) .
24 Collectively , however , the service was not well regarded in the schools since it was seen to be enact many of the tendencies referred to earlier .
25 CHRIS EUBANK could n't help himself — the words of tribute to Michael Watson came tumbling out in a torrent , a year to the Saturday since he put the brave Londoner into a coma .
26 Amid continuing tension in the capital , troops of the 500-strong Pakistani UN contingent guarding relief supplies at Mogadishu port and airport killed at least one Somali in a skirmish at the airport on Dec. 4 , the first blood shed by the force since it arrived in September [ see pp. 39085 ; 39132 ] .
27 Members of parliament are not , therefore , individually responsible to the electorate since they are members of a party team that is collectively and directly responsible to the electorate as a whole .
28 She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived .
29 Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out .
30 Lubrication may be provided by melting between mineral boundaries , but molten material must only form a small proportion of the asthenosphere since it is capable of transmitting S-waves .
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