Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] times [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 2 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 3 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 4 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 5 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 6 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 7 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 8 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |