Example sentences of "he had be [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 2 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 3 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 4 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 5 | It was to be his last substantial prose work , the final fruit of the project which he had been contemplating since the middle of the Second World War . |
| 6 | In the second half of 1966 and throughout 1967 , rhetorical attacks on American policy in Vietnam , which he had been making since 1963 , intensified . |
| 7 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 8 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |