Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 3 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 4 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 5 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 6 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 7 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 8 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 10 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 11 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 12 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 13 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 14 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 15 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 16 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 17 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 18 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 19 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 20 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 21 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 22 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 23 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 24 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 25 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 26 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 27 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 28 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 29 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 30 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |