Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 2 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 8 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 9 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 10 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 11 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 12 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 13 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 16 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 17 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 18 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 19 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 20 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 21 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 22 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 25 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 26 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 27 | It had been reprinted nine times when Walton wrote his Life of Herbert in 1675 . |
| 28 | Spielberg , accustomed to close encounters in the extra-terrestrial sphere , has offered to be creative consultant on a drama-documentary loosely based upon the book , which has sold over 300,000 hardback copies in the UK and has been reprinted fourteen times . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |