Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 2 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 3 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 4 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 5 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 6 | Stevie Ray must have been really young at the time … |
| 7 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 8 | It must have been around two-forty-five by the time I 'd packed up my stuff . |
| 9 | The police had already been very thorough by the time Bodie and Cowley gained access to Doyle 's cordoned off apartment . |
| 10 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 11 | Had he been truly ignorant at the time of what it was ? |