Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] four time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 3 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 4 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 5 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 6 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 7 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 8 | Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) . |
| 9 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 10 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 11 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 12 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 13 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 14 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |