Example sentences of "[pron] have be [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 I hope I 've been by the time
2 He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer .
3 Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over
4 But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons .
5 But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus .
6 By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century .
7 The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 .
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