Example sentences of "time [pers pn] have [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 2 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 3 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 4 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 5 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 6 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |