Example sentences of "the time [pron] have [been] in " in BNC.
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1 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
2 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
3 | ‘ It 's been snowing heavily all the time we 've been in the hall . |
4 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
5 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
6 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
7 | In all the time you 've been in the flats ? |
8 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
9 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
10 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
11 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |
12 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
13 | Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful . |
14 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
15 | All the time she had been in the house . |
16 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |