Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 7 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |