Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but your saying been in , erm they may have happened to you , I 've been bashed into time and time again
2 I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’
3 If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas .
4 They have been revised over time — usually downwards — and they vary significantly from country to country .
5 However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) .
6 In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain .
7 I knew that he had been barracked at times , but I did not realize that he was so sensitive …
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