Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 2 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 7 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 8 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 9 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 10 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 11 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 12 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 13 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 14 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 16 | He 's been fined three hundred pounds and banned from the dugout for a year for verbally abusing referee Sandy Roy during a recent match . |