Example sentences of "[ex0] [verb] been [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 2 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 3 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 4 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 5 | And there had been very hard times indeed when Daddy Ni was drunk and away for days on end and no one else in the family was earning : except the mother slaving in beatified drudgery . |
| 6 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |