Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 3 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 4 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 5 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 6 | I 've been fined thousands of dollars for much less than Senna did . |
| 7 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 8 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 9 | The group , which has been given 18 bins , is building setts to replace those dug-up by badger-baiters . |
| 10 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 11 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 12 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 13 | In the field immediately south of Port Charlotte there is a four-part chambered cairn with a substantial forecourt in which recent excavation discovered neolithic pottery , two leaf arrowheads , and flint knives , and which has been dated 2650 BC . |
| 14 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 15 | There is also a fairly large picture with a dark brown mount around which has been drawn three gold lines , enclosing a spray design , and a small square picture with a brown handmade paper as a backing , which is one of my favourites . |
| 16 | A budget of around FFr50 million has been allocated to the Centre international d'histoire des arts et du patrimoine which has been allocated 17,000 square metres of space next to the rue Vivienne . |
| 17 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 18 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 19 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |
| 20 | He emerged from a cage which had been suspended 25 feet down a shaft at Markham Main colliery , near Doncaster , after handing police a shotgun . |
| 21 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 22 | Much of the Roman landscape is now buried by up to 1 metre ( 1 yard ) of alluvial silt , on to which later settlements have been built and into which have been dug thousands of miles of drainage leats . |
| 23 | Finally , we have hardly mentioned many conventional accompanimental ideas which have been used thousands of times and have been invaluable in their time . |
| 24 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 25 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 26 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 27 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 28 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 29 | One lady , he claimed , almost lost her marbles when the word she picked out of the hat was the same as the one she 'd been handed 27,000 feet up a Himalayan mountain in her backpack and bivouac , far-out , cool-man days . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been gone nine months . ’ |