Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 2 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 7 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 8 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 9 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 10 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |