Example sentences of "since [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 2 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 3 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
| 4 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 5 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 6 | That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed . |
| 7 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 8 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 9 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 10 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 11 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 12 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 13 | All the tension and nervousness and anger was released in one swift exit from the man who had dominated , despised and ridiculed her ever since they had first met . |
| 14 | It had been almost three days since they had first met in hell , in the arena where the mysterious traveller had fought his deadly foe . |
| 15 | In the days since they had first met , Hess had unbent a little with Edward Carrington , but his decision not to discuss detail had remained unchanged . |
| 16 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 17 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 18 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 19 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 20 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 21 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |
| 22 | If Alain had been intrigued by her colouring since he had first seen her then why had n't Marguerite said so ? |
| 23 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 24 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |