Example sentences of "since [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 2 | and I mean I have done several since I left the Scottish Office as well which is quite good and I thought that I might put Sandy at his ease by telling a couple of amusing incidents that have happened post the Scottish Office days |
| 3 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 4 | But I 've only been there one day — half a day , really , since I took a good bit of time off this afternoon to talk to you . |
| 5 | Seventeen days have passed since I finished the ten day course of chlorambucil . |
| 6 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 7 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 8 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 9 | Ever since I won a short-story competition some years ago I 've wanted to write for magazines . |
| 10 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 11 | Since I answered a similar question on 14 November , seven people have been killed as a result of the security situation , of whom six were civilians and one was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 12 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 13 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |
| 14 | Since I have no such talent , I am going to concentrate on what is easiest for me . |
| 15 | Now it is back to ‘ Stitch World ’ and since I have no original ideas I am practising adapting the built-in patterns . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , since I have no clear ideas myself … ’ |
| 17 | To Luce he said , ‘ Since you 've no further need of my services , Miss Weston , I 'll bid you goodnight also , ’ and turned to go . |
| 18 | Since you get the same quantity of national defence as everyone else , whether or not you pay for it , it would never be in your interest to purchase national defence in a free private market . |
| 19 | ‘ How long is it since you had a square meal ? ’ |
| 20 | You 've stopped smoking and your blood sugar is consistently within the normal range since you started the self-care programme six years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ Since you gave the strategic movement order , General Fakrid , ’ the first replied briskly , ‘ there have been no further engagements with the enemy and no further casualties . ’ |
| 22 | Her life has become intolerable , she says , ever since she became a social services ‘ project ’ . |
| 23 | After his father 's death he was taken into the house of a rich Christian lady of liberal sympathies — for Origen too liberal since she had a Gnostic chaplain . |
| 24 | If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries , she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state , since she had no personal experience of it . ) |
| 25 | Since she joined the Common Market in 1972 , Britain has suffered a sharp deterioration in her balance of trade in manufactures with the other Member States . |
| 26 | Bantam Books reports that sales of Maya Angelou books have skyrocketed since she delivered the inaugural poem at President Bill Clinton 's swearing-in ceremony , says BP Report . |
| 27 | SINCE she won the French championships three months ago , Monica Seles has been relatively out of form ( she 'll probably win the U.S. now I 've said that ) . |
| 28 | It is 10 days since our shock issue highlighting the plight of the starving in Somalia — 10 days since we launched an urgent appeal to help them . |
| 29 | Because of his lucrative clothing and flamboyant style of play , it was possible to be unsure of his ability as a player , but since we had the good fortune to see Andrew at Wimbledon this year , many people now know what a truly talented and exciting man he really is . |
| 30 | If or since we had the solar conditions , even if certain other things had happened , we would still have got last night . |