Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 2 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 3 | At other times it has been treated with apathy . |
| 4 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 5 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 6 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 7 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 8 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 9 | In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 11 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 12 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 13 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 14 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 15 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 16 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 17 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 18 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 19 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 20 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 21 | Each time they 've been reprieved at the last moment . |
| 22 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 23 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 24 | In her words ‘ I find myself blaming this for my self-hate , my lack of confidence , my feeling of , ‘ how can anyone love me ’ ’ She had kept this a secret and this was the first time it had been put on paper . |
| 25 | The Royal College of Psychiatrists , at the recommendation of the Spokes Inquiry , published Good medical practice in the aftercare of potentially violent or vulnerable patients discharged from in-patient psychiatric treatment in October 1991 , by which time it had been overtaken by the introduction of the care programme approach . |
| 26 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 27 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 28 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 29 | The country 's top paragliding experts were staging a national competition … the first time it 's been held in the region . |
| 30 | He said Hawes as in Hawes , but that 's the only time it 's been mentioned in public . ’ |