Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been here since 8am , and nothing . |
| 2 | I 'm , I 'm asking , I 've been here since Saturday |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been here since the end of April , ’ Lynnette replied . |
| 4 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 7 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 8 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 9 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 10 | Those of us who have been here since 1987 have a sense of fortune in being involved in the tremendous and dramatic changes in the world scene , which are reflected in the Gracious Speech . |
| 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 | Nobody 's gon na tell if she 's been here since five . |
| 13 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |
| 14 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |
| 15 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 16 | We have been here since the 1950s , it 's going to be tough . |
| 17 | We have been here since 1986 and during that time the town has gone completely down the pan . ’ |
| 18 | He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 . |
| 19 | Broadstone Estate Agents , they 've been there since last . |
| 20 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 21 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 22 | They have been there since last week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 25 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 26 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 27 | He had been there since his early morning session with Tolonen , unaware of how his fate had hung in the balance in the interim , but Li Yuan did not summon him at once . |
| 28 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 29 | It 's been here since the late 19th century . |
| 30 | It 's been here since 1925 , but in September it 'll close . |