Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [adv prt] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |