Example sentences of "been [verb] [num] times for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 2 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 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 '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 . |
| 5 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's also been banned three times for excess alcohol , . |