Example sentences of "he had [verb] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 2 | He intended to remain as PCP MP for Madawaska-Victoria , New Brunswick , which he had represented since 1984 . |
| 3 | In fact he won three , but lost the record he had held since 1979 for the heaviest twin berries . |
| 4 | On the second day of the NPC , Deng Xiaoping , as expected , resigned his last official post as Chairman of the State Central Military Commission ( CMC ) which he had held since 1983 . |
| 5 | As required by tradition , Spitaels at the same time resigned as PS president at national level , a post which he had held since 1981 . |
| 6 | This explains why Clarence was forced to disgorge the Neville lands in Wales , which he had held since 1471 , in favour of his brother . |
| 7 | This explains why Clarence was forced to disgorge the Neville lands in Wales , which he had held since 1471 , in favour of his brother . |
| 8 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 9 | In December 1958 , one month after Khruschev began to make verbal threats against the Western position in Berlin , the SPD 's Willy Brandt was re-elected Mayor of the city , a post he had held since 1957 . |
| 10 | Meechai Ruchupan resigned on Jan. 3 as Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , a post which he had held since 1980 . |
| 11 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 12 | In the midst of the continuing public disorder which had accompanied demands for his resignation in recent weeks , President Gnassingbe Eyadema stood down on May 14 from the post of Defence Minister which he had held since seizing power in 1967 . |
| 13 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |
| 14 | Julio Anguita was , as had been expected , re-elected as the secretary general of the PCE , a post he had held since 1988 . |
| 15 | Alexandre Nunes Correia , Minister of the Civil Service and Labour since March 9 ( and hitherto Public Health Minister ) , was on June 8 , 1990 , dismissed for reasons which were not specified , and on July 31 Maj. José Pereira was dismissed as Minister of National Security and Public Order , a post he had held since 1985 . |
| 16 | On Nov. 3 , 1989 , Giscard d'Estaing gave up his seat in the National Assembly , which he had held since 1984 , in order to comply with a law forbidding politicians from holding more than two elective offices . |
| 17 | At an FDP congress in Neuchâtel on March 31-April 1 , 1990 , Bruno Hunziker resigned from the post of president which he had held since 1984 [ see p. 32998 ] and was replaced by Franz Steinegger . |