Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] since [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Has been probably since the foundation of the club . |
2 | It 's nice and cool inside the cellar , and not damp , though I guess it can only be just above the water table , and my father seems to know what he 's doing and is confident that the explosive has n't become unstable , but I think he 's nervous about it and has been ever since the Bomb Circle . |
3 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
4 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
5 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
6 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
7 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
8 | ‘ I 've been here since the end of April , ’ Lynnette replied . |
9 | We have been here since the 1950s , it 's going to be tough . |
10 | Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution . |
11 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
12 | It 's been here since the late 19th century . |