Example sentences of "have been [verb] [num] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 3 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 4 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 5 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 6 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 7 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 8 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 9 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 10 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 11 | the offences of failing to produce you 've been fined ten pounds for each of those three offences . |
| 12 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 13 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 14 | Cup odds FOOTBALL : Liverpool and Nottingham Forest have been made 11–4 favourites for the FA Cup by William Hill who then offer 7–2 Chelsea , 15–1 Villa , 111 Norwich and Southampton , 16–1 West Ham , 25–1 Middlesbrough , 40–1 Portsmouth , 50–1 Sunderland , 80–1 Ipswich , 150–1 Bolton . |
| 15 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |