Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] time " in BNC.

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1 The cat has relatively large eyes , and their design makes them eight times more sensitive than our own , giving it superb nocturnal vision .
2 When I one time when I was wounded in France I was on the Somme you know .
3 I nine times
4 He 's abducted me six times and Nero had to send the lads to rescue me .
5 The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said .
6 ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door .
7 Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators .
8 I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’
9 I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 .
10 I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job .
11 She had to tell me three times before it sunk in .
12 ‘ She gave it to me three times , then she got difficult . ’
13 But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks .
14 yeah , creepy little sod and have Dave , Dave show me three times how to do a five bar gate
15 Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much
16 Raise your arms behind you 30 times , with hands interlocking .
17 ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’
18 ‘ It was n't you three times , ’ he reminded her .
19 And we 've said bless you three times
20 But then she 'll ask you three times again , three times
21 Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it …
22 I love you ten times more than before . ’
23 I had hopes of you one time , I would n't mind if you had n't made a success of it , but for God 's sake at least try …
24 But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh .
25 ‘ I told you twenty times . ’
26 I told you twenty times about that !
27 Even if someone should sin against you seven times a day , Jesus says you should forgive those seven times ( Luke 17:4 ) .
28 ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins .
29 Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better .
30 Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day .
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