Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in . |
| 2 | Dalglish then handed over Livingstone and £400,000 to Chelsea in return for England Under-21 midfielder Le Saux , 24 , who has played only once since Dave Webb took charge at Stamford Bridge . |
| 3 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 4 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 6 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 7 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 8 | Do you think they 've come on then since we interviewed here ? |
| 9 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 10 | He had worked tremendously hard since his arrival in Britain , first to bring over his family and then to buy his own house . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've worked too hard since your father died , ’ Tamar told him . |
| 12 | An exception was an early seventeenth-century black and white cottage ( slightly askew , like the crooked man 's in the nursery rhyme ) which was the pride and joy of an old man who had lived there ever since anyone could remember . |
| 13 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford . |
| 15 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 16 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |
| 18 | For example , in : ( 40 ) I was born in London and have lived there ever since there refers back to whatever place London refers to , but simultaneously contrasts with here on the deictic dimension of space , locating the utterance outside London . |
| 19 | But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up . |
| 20 | One of the themes running through The State of the Prisons is that with a few exceptions , neither numbers nor conditions of prisoners have changed very much since Howard first visited . |