Example sentences of "been [vb pp] a thousand " in BNC.
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1 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
2 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
3 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
4 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
5 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
6 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
7 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
8 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |