Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 3 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 4 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 5 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 6 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 7 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 8 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 9 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 10 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 11 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |