Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 2 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 3 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been paying ever since to keep him from finding out . |
| 6 | As a power in the land , America 's unions have been fading fast since the 1970s . |
| 7 | Some are still being bought and sold and , according to Charly Herscovici , prices have been rising slowly since 1967 , the year Magritte died . |
| 8 | Reporters have been ringing there since eight this morning . |
| 9 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 10 | The TV presenters , who have been living apart since May , sadly told of their decision to separate . |
| 11 | It was an honest mistake and one that all of the current Leeds back four have been repeating frequently since then — however if I ever see Bredan ‘ F***k**g ’ Gormless I 'll kick his head in ( NOT ! ) . |
| 12 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 13 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 14 | Samsung and Array — the buyout of Honeywell Inc 's Honeywell Signal Processing Technologies , have been working together since January 1991 on a family of video compression chips for the multimedia computing market , on a cost-sharing basis . |
| 15 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |