Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [noun] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen has been with Clover Leaf since 1986 and is a full time-served apprentice and MoT tester . |
| 2 | There are two public sites in the Vale , one that has been at East Challow since the year dot and people have forgotten actually exist . |
| 3 | David , 27 , has been at Portman Road since 1988 but falls upon a North-East emissary like fond father upon prodigal son . |
| 4 | This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare . |
| 5 | Formerly an accountant with Ferranti , he has been in BCU HQ since October in order to prepare the BCU annual accounts . |
| 6 | Sihanouk had fled to Beijing just before the 1979 Vietnamese invasion , having been in Phnom Penh since 1975 but without real power as an effective prisoner in the hands of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 7 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 8 | On April 4 Bor , which had been under SPLA control since April 1989 , fell to a government force of some 2,000 men , which was armed with heavy artillery against the SPLA 's lighter arms . |
| 9 | Suu Kyi , secretary general of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , had been under house arrest since July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 10 | This meant in effect that Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition leader who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , was removed as the party 's secretary general . |
| 11 | In April 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , had been effectively removed as NLD general secretary [ see p. 38151 ] . |
| 12 | During the following week over 30 political prisoners were reportedly released , including a number of bodyguards and assistants to Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 13 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since mid-1989 , was permitted a visit by her husband , Michael Aris , and two sons during May . |
| 14 | The resolution also called for the unconditional release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since 1989 . |
| 15 | The air unit was commanded by Senior Colonel Wang Yon , who had served in Manchuria and graduated from a Soviet military academy as an air force lieutenant in the Soviet army ; he had been in North Korea since 1945 . |
| 16 | A police spokesman confirmed Donald Murphy had been in police custody since last Friday . |
| 17 | The factory had been in effect bankrupt since March ; losses in 1991 had reached 600,000 million zloty ( about $55,000,000 ) . |
| 18 | Dave Punshon , Age Concern 's chief officer , recently expressed fears that the scheme would have to close and its staff have been under redundancy notice since Christmas to finish on March 31 . |
| 19 | These have been in US custody since May awaiting White House approval to seek an indictment of the Marcoses . |