Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 2 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 3 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 4 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 5 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 6 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 7 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 8 | A famous film clip , which has been shown countless times , shows a NICRA supporter in front of the police line , appealing for restraint before suddenly doubling up , apparently in agony . |
| 9 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 10 | Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through . |
| 11 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 12 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 13 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 14 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 15 | It was an unfortunate British debut for Thompson , who has been overlooked several times by coach , Dennis Hay . |
| 16 | There is a certain kudos in it , like the attitude towards Patrick Chauvel ( who has been wounded several times covering wars ) , and there 's Capa 's : ‘ If your photos are n't good enough you 're not close enough . ’ |
| 17 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 18 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 19 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 20 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 21 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 22 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 23 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 24 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 25 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 26 | A nationwide search is under way after a fourteen-year-old who 's been arrested thirty-five times ran away afer a court appearance . |
| 27 | Time has stopped dead , and the single experience of one coin being spun one has been repeated ninety times … |
| 28 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 29 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 30 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |