Example sentences of "since [pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 2 | Moira McVitie is fairly putting on the beef since she gave up the teaching when wee Scott was born . |
| 3 | Since you arrived , ever since she picked up the … vibrations between us , that first lunchtime , she has done everything in her power to stir up trouble , including that episode in my office , and tonight 's performance . |
| 4 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 5 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 6 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |