Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 2 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 3 | Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor . |
| 4 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 5 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 6 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 7 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 8 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 9 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |
| 10 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 11 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 12 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 13 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 14 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 15 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 16 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 19 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 20 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 21 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 22 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 23 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 24 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 25 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 26 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 27 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 28 | It had been advocated countless times , but prejudice against it held sway , and it was argued that identifying players would pander to their individual egos . |
| 29 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 30 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |