Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] times [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 2 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 3 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 4 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 5 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 6 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |