Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 2 | Originally a 9-holer designed by Tom Dunn , Sheringham was extended to 18 holes in 1898 and , little changed over the years , it particularly suits the English ladies , it seems : their amateur championship has been played here several times , most recently in 1991 . |
| 3 | But his work has been destroyed so many times in the rads that he 's now giving up . |
| 4 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 5 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 6 | With the information to hand , each member makes a further assessment until , after the process has been repeated perhaps three times , some convergence of opinion may appear . |
| 7 | The story of the sunken village under Semer Water has been repeated so many times that it may be pointless me telling the story once again , yet there may be some of you who wo n't have heard it , so if you 're sitting comfortably , I 'll begin . |
| 8 | Merton 's ( 1938 ) attempt to explain crime as a response to anomie — the disjuncture between cultural goals of success and legitimate opportunity structures through which success might be realized — has been reproduced over 110 times , a fact which in itself testifies to the importance of this analysis . |
| 9 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 10 | The stock-taking announcement , which was initially expected last year , has been put back several times . |
| 11 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 12 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 13 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 14 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 15 | She should n't have to do that and she has narrowly avoided being knocked down several times herself . ’ |
| 16 | What you need to do is to decide how much time study requires and then find the time in the day to do it . |
| 17 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 18 | The whole must have been rewritten about five times . |
| 19 | The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times . |
| 20 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 21 | ( 18 January 1775 ) The Mozarts eventually left Munich and arrived back in Salzburg on 7 March 1775 , Mozart 's opera having been performed only three times ( the last of which had had to be cut as the seconda donna was ill ) . |
| 22 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 23 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 24 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 25 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 26 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 27 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 28 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 29 | The tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 30 | While the others were talking of Hubert Molland , Peter had felt like a spectator at a play — as if he were watching a scene that had been rehearsed so many times that the actors spoke their lines mechanically , hardly caring about the meaning . |