Example sentences of "time they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 2 | time they 've been round the floor and picked up again they 're not that good are they ? |
| 3 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 4 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 5 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 6 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 7 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 8 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 9 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |