Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | He has returned to the Players ' Championship and the New Orleans tournament after a six-week lay-off with eight rounds in which he has not been over par and has been under five times . |
| 4 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 5 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 6 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 7 | Emily must have been there some time . |
| 8 | At present valuations , the figure being asked is around three times the price valuers working for the county council expect for common land with ancient rights over it … |
| 9 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 10 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 11 | Kuttner Dowd had been here several times , though never when the Society was assembled , as it was tonight . |
| 12 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 13 | And there had been very hard times indeed when Daddy Ni was drunk and away for days on end and no one else in the family was earning : except the mother slaving in beatified drudgery . |
| 14 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 15 | He had been there many times before . |
| 16 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |
| 17 | We had been there some time . |
| 18 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 19 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 21 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 22 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 23 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 24 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 25 | All sorts of things seem to have happened while you have been away this time . ’ |
| 26 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |
| 27 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 28 | But I know that part of the country and have been there many times . |
| 29 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 30 | Troops have been there some time and they 're familiar with locals on the ground . |