Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 2 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 3 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 4 | He had worked tremendously hard since his arrival in Britain , first to bring over his family and then to buy his own house . |
| 5 | An exception was an early seventeenth-century black and white cottage ( slightly askew , like the crooked man 's in the nursery rhyme ) which was the pride and joy of an old man who had lived there ever since anyone could remember . |