Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] since he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 32 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 33 | It was five months since he had last seen her , since he had last been in Athens . |
| 34 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 35 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 36 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 37 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 38 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 39 | It was 28 hours since he had driven the clapped-out Ford Capri into the street , and counted himself lucky to find a space to park that was pretty near opposite the front door from which the man had emerged with his two small girls . |
| 40 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the 15 months since he got his job 840,000 people have lost their jobs ? |
| 41 | Steinitz 's own furniture , amassed over the twenty years since he acquired the Château and its contents , accounted for one-third of the lots . |
| 42 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 43 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 44 | It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning . |
| 45 | The outgoing head of state , Flt. -Lt. ( retd ) Jerry Rawlings , won 58.3 per cent of votes cast on Nov. 3 , in the first presidential elections since he seized power in a military coup in 1981 , according to official results announced in Accra on Nov. 6 . |
| 46 | It was almost thirty minutes since he 'd made the phone call , stopping off quickly at a payphone before swinging the car off the main road and into Paddington Recreation Ground . |
| 47 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 48 | The king , so they said , had made four new commands on the Welsh front , though it was only four months since he had made the previous appointments of the two Percies as lieutenants of north and south Wales . |
| 49 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |
| 50 | Dalglish will pay Swedish club Malmo £800,000 for their star man , taking his gross transfer outlay soaring to nearly £12 million in the 14 months since he took over at Ewood Park . |
| 51 | Dalglish will pay Swedish club Malmo £800,000 for their star man , taking his gross transfer outlay soaring to nearly £12 million in the 14 months since he took over at Ewood Park . |
| 52 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 53 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 54 | Even though his wife Primaflora was there and it was four weeks since he had touched her . |
| 55 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 56 | It was two years since he had last been below the Net , but his early discomfort quickly passed , older habits taking over , changing the way he moved , the way he held himself . |
| 57 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 58 | Pipe has achieved ever-increasing tallies in each of the 14 years since he took out a licence . |
| 59 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 60 | It 's a year to within two days since he put the brave Londoner into a coma , from which he is only now slowly recovering . |