Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 2 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 3 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 4 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 5 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |