Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] since [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance ‘ Turkish baths ’ properly should be described as Islamic baths since they have no special link with Turkey . |
| 2 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 3 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 4 | Thirty-six hours since he had been roused . |
| 5 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 6 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 7 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 8 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 9 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 10 | To begin with , the term notion is itself a cause of some confusion since it has been interpreted in different ways in relation to its companion function . |
| 11 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 12 | This south-eastern quarter was to Stephen 's mind the least beautiful , but it was some weeks since he had been there and he liked to keep the whole of the moor under surveillance . |
| 13 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 14 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 15 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 16 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 17 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 18 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 19 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 20 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 21 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 22 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 23 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 24 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 25 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 26 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 27 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 28 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 29 | Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | New members , particularly , are always interested and it is some while since we had a ‘ Sales Boost ’ and we need the shelf space and the money ! |