Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 2 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 3 | The stock-taking announcement , which was initially expected last year , has been put back several times . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She should n't have to do that and she has narrowly avoided being knocked down several times herself . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 13 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 14 | Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month . |
| 15 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |