Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She began to feel that if she did this a few more times she would get the hang of it . |
| 2 | So like , you go one , two , three , four , five , six six times you swap |
| 3 | WHEELCHAIR competitors in Sunday 's London Marathon have been told that instead of going for personal best times they must take at least one hour and 50 minutes to complete the course . |
| 4 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 5 | If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . |
| 6 | IN THESE TOUGH TIMES we need all the influence we can get ! |
| 7 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 8 | In these difficult times it makes sense to look again at this post . |
| 9 | IN these bleak times it is good to see that one veteran television star has succeeded in resurrecting his career . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know much about etiquette back there in the shtetl , but even in these decadent times we do n't feel a gun in the back is just a snappy way to say ‘ please ’ . ’ |
| 11 | The mother learns that if the child is placed on a pot at these particular times she is likely to avoid having dirty nappies . |
| 12 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 13 | That is what Mr Major should address , however many more times he has to stand on his head . |
| 14 | Riven , remembering the Rime Giant 's attempt on his life in Ralarth Rorim , could not help but wonder how many more times he was to be the focus of a battle . |
| 15 | And I 'd like to know how many damned times I 'm supposed to tell you that I had no motives either ! ’ |
| 16 | Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time . |
| 17 | In the image the tribe acts as a unit only when people need it , and at all other times it is only a possibility , a concept in their minds . |
| 18 | Her throat tightened on the word , as if even now she could n't quite admit it ; and she wondered how many other times she 'd made herself not hear . |
| 19 | 3.2 The Programmer warrants that all material times he has satisfied the requirements as to nationality/residence set out in Section 154 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , and that the Program will not reproduce any copyright matter not assigned in this Agreement . |
| 20 | 3.2 The Programmer warrants that all material times he has satisfied the requirements as to nationality/residence set out in Section 154 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , and that the Program will not reproduce any copyright matter not assigned in this Agreement . |
| 21 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 22 | In those hard times she turned to the god in the village where she lived , and that god stood by her . |
| 23 | When people of the late 1970s and 1980s remembered those heady times it was the ludicrous lack of realism that they recalled rather than the idealism — ‘ hippie ’ had become simply a term of abuse . |
| 24 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 25 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 26 | The first few times you go it 's interesting and exciting as anything new is , but eventually it 's hot and dusty and really quite boring . |
| 27 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 28 | Five five times I was polite . |
| 29 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 30 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |