Example sentences of "since [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 2 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 3 | Since nothing had been taken away the duty in such a case was to reach an honest conclusion without bias and not in pursuance of a capricious policy . |
| 4 | But then , as she was fast coming to realise , that was par for the course really , since nothing appeared to make much sense where Dane Jacobsen was concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ I was wearing a flak jacket with bulging pockets and over my shoulder was carrying a bag with my long lens in it — it could have been a bazooka since no-one searched it . |
| 6 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 7 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 8 | The market was pleasantly stunned by the deal , since no-one had realised that the stake was worth anything like the sum agreed . |
| 9 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 10 | Since everyone had recovered from their outing in the bar the previous night , Kevin Sinclair and Phil Gore braved the terrors of claustrophobia and , straws pushed firmly into their noses , allowed ‘ life masks ’ to be made of their faces . |
| 11 | Captain Awud proposed that , since everyone knew the total of voters , they needed to count the votes for one candidate only . |
| 12 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |
| 13 | Since everyone wanted reform the students could not be ruled out of order . |
| 14 | Frances took the man 's part , since someone had to and she was taller . |
| 15 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 16 | Imran , 39 , said he was not very optimistic at the moment because the injury ‘ has not improved at all since I played the World Cup final ’ . |
| 17 | He said yesterday : ‘ It would be my biggest ever game for the club , and it 'll be the biggest since I played and scored for Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi-finals last season . |
| 18 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 19 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 20 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 21 | It 's been that long since I played that game . |
| 22 | This was the first time she had come into my thoughts since I left England . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 24 | Since I left school , at sixteen . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have positively done nothing but dream of the System of no Property every step of the Way since I left you , ’ he wrote back to Oxford on 13 July . |
| 26 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
| 27 | I can cook , as it happens — I 've had to do it ever since I left Pinehurst , and I can tackle most ordinary things . |
| 28 | Just after the end of our period , in the late 1150s , the celebrated intellectual and letter writer John of Salisbury recounted his travels : ‘ ten times have I crossed the chain of the Alps since I left England first ; twice have I travelled through Apulia ; I have done business often in the Roman court on behalf of my superiors and friends ; and on a variety of counts I have traversed England , and France too , many times . ’ |
| 29 | It 's been 10 years now since I left the farm , and I 'm happy that I 've ‘ escaped ’ to London . |
| 30 | It will be ten years this June since I left BTI , at that time under the lovely principalship of Geoffrey Grogan . |