Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 2 | Information has been around since the garden of Eden . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Turbo Ninety has been out since October 1986 and is available on the secondhand market , so I would go for one of those If you do buy a Turbo Landy then check its service history as neglected oil changes in early life will show up later on |
| 6 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 7 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 8 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 9 | Both are US in origin , the Basler Turbo-67 having been around since 1988 and in ‘ production ’ at Oshkosh , Wisconsin , since 1990 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 12 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 17 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 18 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 19 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 20 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 21 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 24 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We 've not , we 've been out since about eleven o'clock and not had a drink . |
| 27 | I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well |
| 28 | Oh no , we 've been out since then have n't we ? |
| 29 | And I went then from a , a timber mill and they there 's various different jobs I 've been in since then , you know ? |
| 30 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |