Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adj] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 2 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 3 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 4 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 5 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 6 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 7 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 8 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 9 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 10 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 11 | He 's also been banned three times for excess alcohol , . |