Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] since [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 2 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |
| 5 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 6 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |
| 7 | Palestinian and Jordanian pressure for a summit had been mounting since April , and in early May Iraq announced that it would host the meeting . |
| 8 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 9 | Mr Hall , 35 , of Craigbarnet Road in Milngavie , had been missing since October and his body was found on 5 January . |
| 10 | A 69-YEAR-OLD patient at Belfast 's Musgrave Park Hospital , who had been missing since Sunday , was found safe and well today in nearby woodlands . |
| 11 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |