Example sentences of "been [adv prt] since [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February .
2 Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday .
3 But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock .
4 Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 .
5 The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse .
6 He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited .
7 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 .
8 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
9 He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike .
10 She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 .
11 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 .
12 Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ .
13 I 've been up since six . ’
14 She 's been up since six and he is up
15 ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read .
16 I 've been up since half past seven .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ )
19 been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve .
20 Mm Erm yes so he was just saying that , you know , the only night he 's really been out since New Year 's Eve was last Wednesday , he 's just been in the whole time .
21 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
22 Had n't been out since this morning .
23 I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well
24 They have been around since Egyptian times , which makes them one of our oldest decorating materials .
25 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 .
26 The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court .
27 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 .
28 Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors .
29 Both are US in origin , the Basler Turbo-67 having been around since 1988 and in ‘ production ’ at Oshkosh , Wisconsin , since 1990 .
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