Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | b ) any Question necessary to bring to a decision a Question so proposed ( including , in the case of a new Clause or new Schedule which has been read a second time , the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill ) ; |
| 2 | Ordered , That , in respect of the Welsh Development Agency Bill , notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 3 | That , in respect of the Stamp Duty ( Temporary Provisions ) Bill , Notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 4 | Ordered , That , in respect of the Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill , notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 5 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 6 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 7 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 9 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 14 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 15 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 16 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 19 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 20 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 21 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 22 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 25 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 26 | ‘ Therese and Loulou , ’ said Giles , ‘ have been married a long time . |
| 27 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 28 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 29 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |
| 30 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |