Example sentences of "have been [verb] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee .
2 She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’
3 When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family .
4 Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn .
5 There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before .
6 An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands .
7 Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate .
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