Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 2 | In theatres all over the rest of the country The Tart and the Vicar 's Wife packs them in , and has been ever since it opened in Preston in February 1986 . |
| 3 | The professor is director of the Office of Health Economics , and has been ever since that admirable bureau was established in 1962 . |
| 4 | The bed has been there since Father Collins 's time , in the war . |
| 5 | Otherwise their wonderful staff seemed the same as ever , headed by Mrs Julie Hughes who runs the place so well ; Miss Barbara Hopkins , who has been there since Forest Mere opened , and is invaluable in seeing you have every comfort in your bedroom . |
| 6 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 7 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 8 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 9 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 10 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 11 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 12 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 13 | It had been ever since he 'd dropped Hitch off . |
| 14 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 15 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 16 | Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent . |
| 17 | Eventually he owned a greengrocery business which he then mortgaged to buy spoil heaps across the road from the gold mines , which had been there since mining began . |
| 18 | He had been there since ever . |
| 19 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 20 | It looked as if no one had been there since she left in the afternoon to go to Nick . |
| 21 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 22 | They 've been here since the fifties , no children , his brother lives with them . |
| 23 | I 've been here since the start , three and a half years , and it 's just so sad . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been there since I arrived . |
| 25 | I 've been there since it opened . |
| 26 | I 've been there since before one ! |
| 27 | I have been here since I came from the hospital and while I was there Maria sat by you . |
| 28 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 29 | Have been ever since puberty . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Because he 's been here since he was a lad . |