Example sentences of "since [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have given anything to have been able to do something , particularly since nobody else seemed interested in assisting , but Granny was a difficult person to help and I was young and afraid of horses . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show ! |
| 3 | She had no ideas of conversion since she previously spent six months in an ecumenical Christian community in the South of France . |
| 4 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 5 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 6 | The last superintendent said we ca n't and I think the point you 've raised is very valid since they actually stopped that facility said that they 're not allowed in there it has I think gone into a situation where it is n't a very quite place erm and there problems about what goes on there etc and I think need to look at it . |
| 7 | Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation . |
| 8 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 9 | The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 11 | On the other hand , he must have been a disappointment to his dynastically inclined father and mother since he never showed any aspirations for political office despite their encouragement . |
| 12 | In fact , for all he knew — which was n't much , since he never visited other trainers — this was how they did took . |
| 13 | Since he now sounded flustered , Penelope Huntley looked with interest at the intruder : a good-looking , slightly overweight woman probably in her early forties , carefully dressed but uncertain . |
| 14 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 15 | At first instance the court held that such a clause was an exclusion clause within the meaning of s 13 of the UCTA , since it clearly excluded one of the methods by which the defendant could otherwise , at law , have enforced his counterclaim , namely by set-off . |