Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 2 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 3 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been scribbling since infancy , though I 've only now buckled down to it . |
| 5 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 6 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
| 7 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 8 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
| 9 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 10 | We 've been going since the mid 70s , staying in a mountain range on the North West coast of the island . |
| 11 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 12 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 13 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 14 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 15 | We have been playing since February . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 17 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 18 | they 've been flying since then and last week 's win over league leaders Newcastle was proof to all that Town are in promotion form |
| 19 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 20 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 22 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 23 | They had been queueing since early morning in front of the larger shops and the department stores in Sauchiehall Street , Renfield Street and Argyle Street to buy blackout cloth . |
| 24 | By the end of 1941 it looked as though the Communists and their supporters had established the monopoly over the Left for which they had been striving since their foundation . |
| 25 | They have been living since the nursery with different materials around them and objects having different weights , and they have a concealed knowledge of ice-water-steam which is more helpful to a teacher at this stage than any class experiments . |
| 26 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 27 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 28 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 29 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 30 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |