Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] since i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have kept the books of this branch since I retired from banking , five years ago . ’ |
| 2 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 3 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 4 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 5 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 6 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 7 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 8 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 9 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 10 | I have n't had real good French fries since I left San Francisco . ’ |
| 11 | It is 40 years ago this summer since I bought my first knitting machine . |
| 12 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 13 | I was not a proper minister since I had no dog collar on and my Grace had been far too short . |
| 14 | It will be ten years this June since I left BTI , at that time under the lovely principalship of Geoffrey Grogan . |
| 15 | It is some time since I heard news of him . |
| 16 | ‘ It is some time since I heard that last piece played so well . ’ |
| 17 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 18 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 19 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given way again , because it is some time since I smelt a rat in the Chamber , but there is one knocking about tonight . |
| 20 | It 's such ages since I saw my foster family and … and friends , but I 'll be back , Cora-Beth , you can be sure of that . |
| 21 | Such ages since I heard . ’ |
| 22 | And six months since I saw Alix . ’ |
| 23 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 24 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 25 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 26 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 28 | Verse 1 Where has tha' bin since I saw thee ? |
| 29 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
| 30 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |