Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Party has been victorious three times running increasing its majority each time . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 3 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 4 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been married three times . |
| 7 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 8 | My mother disapproved of him because she was his contemporary , and she thought , ‘ This man 's been married three times , why would n't he love a beautiful nineteen year-old girl ? ’ |