Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 2 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 3 | Good times , yes , they had been good times … |
| 4 | Oh , they had been happier times ! |
| 5 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 6 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 7 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 8 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 9 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 10 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 11 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 12 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 13 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 14 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 16 | The very word ‘ Mystery ’ could not provide a much heavier clue , and I am bold to assert that Agatha Christie 's inspiration to write mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot sprang directly from her reading of the following extract from the Harrogate Third Shepherd 's Pay in the Hull Cycle ( ‘ as it hath been divers time acted by the Guild of Chandlers and Gardners upon the Feast of Corpus Christie , ) : |