Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 2 | And there had been that brief time in the Wolfwood — I wo n't remember it ! thought Fenella , but she did remember it . |
| 3 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 4 | They ca n't have been bilingual last time because they were hired from Staffordshire County Council . |
| 5 | If it 's true and he is alive where has he been all this time ? |
| 6 | Having been all this time contented about his welfare , now that her leaving was fixed and certain , she had begun to have misgivings . |
| 7 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 8 | ‘ Where have you been all this time ? |
| 9 | ‘ Where the hell have you been all this time ? ’ |
| 10 | Where have they been all this time ? |
| 11 | ‘ Where the bloody hell have you been all this time ? ’ she cried , throwing herself into his arms . |
| 12 | Where had he been all this time , that she should see him now being led prisoner into Parfois ? |
| 13 | ‘ Where 've you been all this time ? ’ |
| 14 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 15 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 16 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 17 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |