Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] since the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four strikers on the pitch had amassed 161 goals between them since the start of last season . |
| 2 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 3 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 4 | This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture . |
| 5 | Sihanouk resigned as president of the CGDK on Jan. 24 , citing " international hostility " towards him since the August 1989 Paris conference . |
| 6 | But no one has heard anything of him since the collapse of the northern empire . ’ |
| 7 | Things have not been quite the same between the two of us since the business with the vacuum cleaner in the cellar . |
| 8 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 9 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 10 | WOLVES have agreed a £100,000 fee with Coventry for defender Paul Edwards , 29 , who has been on loan with them since the start of the season . |
| 11 | I have been with you since the start of the magazine in 1978 and have every issue published , as well as the two Year Books . |
| 12 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
| 13 | I have n't had sex with him since the beginning of our marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the handicapped have every right to go along Skinnergate and High Row , ’ he said , ‘ They have gone along it since the year dot . ’ |
| 15 | CFCs — the main problem — have been with us since the 1930s , a valued invention because they are non-toxic , non-flammable and cheaper to make than any known substitute . |
| 16 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
| 17 | Apples have been with us since the dawn of time , in countless varieties of colour , shape and size . |
| 18 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
| 19 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 20 | He was astonished by the change in her since the previous day ; then she had looked tired , now she looked grey and ill . |
| 21 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 22 | I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel . |
| 23 | Schools are having to become more complex organisations in order to meet the varied responsibilities which have been devolved to them since the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 25 | There are a couple of points which have occured to me since the meeting : |
| 26 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |
| 27 | It was now the second week in January and she had n't spoken to him since the night of the Christmas dance . |
| 28 | To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier : |
| 29 | He had n't spoken to her since the day before her father resigned . |
| 30 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |