Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 2 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 3 | He put another one and it 's been on since then ! |
| 4 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 5 | He had not been in since yesterday . |
| 6 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 7 | And I went then from a , a timber mill and they there 's various different jobs I 've been in since then , you know ? |
| 8 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |
| 9 | And is that , does that , is that ma , is that a major problem , has that been through since |
| 10 | But for all its forced and rather infuriating serenity , the letter 's tone was partially warranted , if one thinks of all that France and de Gaulle had been through since June 1940 . |
| 11 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 12 | Al Mutahm has been off since springing a big surprise in a Group Three at Ascot back in April and this trip is probably a bare minimum for him over hurdles . |
| 13 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 14 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 15 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 16 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 17 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
| 18 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |
| 20 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 21 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 22 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 23 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 24 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 25 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 26 | but Reggie , Reggie will come in and go straight to bed , he 's been up since about quarter to four |
| 27 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 28 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
| 29 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 30 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |