Example sentences of "since [pers pn] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since I 'd been a youngster , watching and playing football , Hibs have held an important place in the game . |
| 2 | He had been curled up there , dead in his basket , since I had been a child in a velvet-collared coat . |
| 3 | Honestly , Les , this team is the biggest load of rubbish we have had here since I 've been a supporter and I started before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 4 | She 's know me since I 've been a little girl . |
| 5 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 6 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 7 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 8 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
| 9 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 10 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 11 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 12 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 13 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |
| 14 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 15 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 16 | This sort of inquisition had n't happened to him since his schooldays , since he had been the playground bully whose only fear in life was a particularly sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued headmaster . |
| 17 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 18 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 19 | The shopfittings had not been changed since it had been a High Street draper 's , or a confectioner 's perhaps ? |