Example sentences of "time since [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 2 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 3 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 4 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 5 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 6 | For the first time since they had left the house , he seemed rather less relaxed . |
| 7 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 8 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 9 | It was a long time since she had felt fear and it was not at all exhilarating . |
| 10 | It was a long time since she had felt that . |
| 11 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 12 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 13 | A long time since she had done that . |
| 14 | In the time since she had moved downstairs , and Alison had moved in upstairs , she had meditated much , almost as a detached spectator , upon the comparative stability of her incompatible moods , whereby she was , as it were , becalmed . |
| 15 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 16 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 17 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 18 | Been a long time since she had heard her language spoken freely . |
| 19 | Been a long time since she had worshipped with God 's people . |
| 20 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
| 21 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
| 22 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 23 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 24 | But when they began to steal away from their tasks to sit beside her and smoke their pipes , Grainne felt more honoured than at any time since she had occupied Ireland 's Throne . |
| 25 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 26 | Next morning , for the first time since she had started at G.W. , she arrived late , almost too terrified to step across the threshold . |
| 27 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 28 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 29 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
| 30 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |