Example sentences of "been [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 2 | Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee . |
| 3 | THE mercy death doctor has been given more time to consider his future . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 6 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 7 | The author would welcome responses from teams developing courses in EP , particularly in North America , with a view to publishing a much more elaborate framework ( akin to that available for Computer Science ) , including the items which have been omitted this time . |
| 8 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 9 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 10 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 11 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 12 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 13 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 14 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 15 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 16 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 17 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 18 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 19 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 20 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 23 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 24 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 25 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 26 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 27 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 28 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 29 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 30 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |