Example sentences of "time [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 2 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 3 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 4 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 5 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 6 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 7 | It 's the first time I 've been to a game of footie in a Porsche , and it will probably be the last , but it was fun , and added to the enjoyment of another thoroughly enjoyable day out Leeds watching . |
| 8 | ‘ As this is the first time I 've been to Ca ’ del Leone , the answer must be no . ’ |
| 9 | Every time I 've been to a wedding and people in cravats are all the same . |
| 10 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 11 | So that was the time I 've been before a recorder . |
| 12 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 13 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 14 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 15 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 16 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
| 17 | Every time I have been to the Jobcentre it 's been a waste of time . |
| 18 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 19 | … Every time I have been in Annat since , I have remembered this further demonstration of Highland hospitality by people obviously poor in everything except the warmth of their welcome for strangers . |
| 20 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 22 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 23 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 24 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 25 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 26 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 27 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 28 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 29 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 30 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |