Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] since [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I mean obviously since we was established in nineteen eighty three we 've gone from strength to strength , and the only way that any company can do that is by offering good service all round .
2 Her daughter Chandrika , whose politics have not altered much since her Left Bank days as a student at the Sorbonne , will be the province 's chief minister .
3 Like Cadbury 's chocolate , the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception , but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library .
4 ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said .
5 ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said .
6 Only six weeks after her confinement , the Mozarts set out for Salzburg to visit Leopold , a visit promised ever since their marriage but continually put off , much to Leopold 's annoyance .
7 The geographical location of the prospective family must be considered carefully since it is important for the child to see black people :
8 To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago .
9 He 's been happily dying here since you phoned me . ’
10 This side of his work we can not discuss here since it would best be dealt with in a book concerned with history and Marxism .
11 Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six .
12 Opinions about timetabling motions have altered massively since I took over the chairmanship of the Select Committee on Procedure nearly nine years ago .
13 OK you can criticise Strach for that , but his main talents which are those that have benefited leeds most since his arrival are his passing and ability to take on men resulting in him or a team mate scoring .
14 As is well known , he wrote in the ‘ Foreword ’ to the second edition : ‘ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations , and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence . ’
15 It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names .
16 It had n't grown much since he 'd cut it a week ago , but he wanted the lawns to have a shaved appearance for the Easter Fete .
17 Giulini 's view of both works has broadened noticeably since his 1965 Decca recording of these Symphonies was made , and for some listeners these performances will seem impossibly flabby and sentimental .
18 I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport .
19 It was the happening that we Hastings children had dreaded ever since our Junior School Headmaster , who also taught Physics , had told us one day in class .
20 The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’
21 To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife .
22 She lived in a world of detail and precision , of getting the names right and the appearances correct , and had done ever since she joined the Security Service straight from Oxford fourteen years before .
23 My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) .
24 He limps now , and has done ever since I can remember .
25 I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house .
26 He still loved Elizabeth deeply , as he had done ever since he was seventeen , but he had no wish to be the subject of Sarah 's adoration day after day .
27 Well he 's done ever since he was a little old boy , just
28 Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before .
29 Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live .
30 This is a splendid incentive for people to listen hard since they never know when they might be called upon to paraphrase what they have heard .
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