Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 2 | This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times . |
| 3 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 4 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 5 | Mr Soden , who 's been made redundant seven times , was given a conditional discharge by magistrates after pleading guilty . |
| 6 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |