Example sentences of "[num] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times England were in command , and three times they were forced to relinquish their grasp . |
| 2 | Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) . |
| 3 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 4 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 5 | Three times they blanket the fire |
| 6 | W we still seem to debate certain things three , four and five times they creep their way through to the main committee and full council and I have to say that the point in para B about the report we 've been sent not recognising the reduction in local er government responsibilities it it is it 's a bit rich , because our response to that report does n't recognise that when I first arrived here Chairman we had the education department which was responsible for all the schools , six colleges of further education , college of art , college of agriculture , the teacher training college at and a major polytechnic . |
| 7 | At one time they hit 356p . |
| 8 | One time they spill the blood . |
| 9 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 10 | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show . |
| 11 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 12 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 13 | At one time they were very much cultivated in Provence and are still popular there . |
| 14 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 15 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 16 | They used to buy from Ghana a lot and er at one time they stopped it and this very nearly brought down Ghana 's economy right down . |
| 17 | And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite . |
| 18 | Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was . |
| 19 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
| 20 | At any one time they are likely to have two hundred and fifty in various stages of recovery . |
| 21 | Oh they , they used to have several going through the hangers at one time they erm they probably had about six Harvards , and about nine Bostons which were , they were bigger than |
| 22 | At one time they 'd say , Oh just bid the whole parish . |
| 23 | I mean , I can remember when she worked with me , every Christmas they changed one time they came to Leicester |
| 24 | No , I do n't suppose you do now , but , but I have would off worked for local authorities , because at one time they were very poorly paid . |
| 25 | Like th what they did one time they all had erm |
| 26 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 27 | one time they had this big trolley of all smashed up Easter eggs and me and my mum kept running up to it and nicking bits of chocolate |
| 28 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |