Example sentences of "time [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 2 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 3 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 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 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 6 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 7 | It was the first time I had been able to attend a pub meet at this particular hostelry , and I thought it was very nice , full of young people without being a noisy ‘ fun pub ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the time I had been there a year , I walked and neighed like the Houys . |
| 10 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 11 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 12 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 13 | But to tell the truth , for a long time I 've been slightly lost as a dealer . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , although this is n't the first time I 've been here . |
| 15 | I 've hated it more every time I 've been back . |
| 16 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 19 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've been here . |
| 21 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 22 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 23 | Well this is the first time I 've been |
| 24 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been down here since God knows when . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 27 | Before you get too political you must remember the only time I 've been actively political was for an independent candidate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The only time I 've been quite as pissed off was when we sold Jordan & McQueen . |
| 30 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |