Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 2 | They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times . |
| 3 | The feeling of vague unease he had felt when the Sweeper had visited the Cages that evening now returned sharply , almost painfully , multiplied a hundred times . |
| 4 | If the gallery outside the silver door had hummed and quivered and thrown out heat before , now the sensations were magnified and multiplied a hundred times as Calatin set the Silver Looms to harness the power of the sorcerer . |
| 5 | So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars . |
| 6 | ‘ Helen phoned a few times . |
| 7 | Queen Victoria and George V presided a dozen times over the formation of minority or coalition governments . |
| 8 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 9 | Then later , when I was by myself in the examining room , you know , your stomach drops a few times . |
| 10 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 11 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 12 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 13 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 14 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 15 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 18 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 19 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 20 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |
| 21 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
| 22 | You work it out in stages , little bits , and then you add the bits together and then you add the bits together , so you say , well I could do a hundred times seventeen and then I could do ones times seventeen . |
| 23 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 24 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 25 | ( ‘ Lonely ’ or ‘ loneliness ’ occurs a dozen times in his songs . |
| 26 | Today a tiny microelectronic processor less than a quarter-inch square can carry a hundred times more computing power than the massive Ferranti Mark I Star , Europe 's first commercial computer produced in 1950 . |
| 27 | Well , Anna came a few times . |
| 28 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 29 | Is that what you 're talking about now when you 're saying about the about erm you did n't know what to About being frightened you 've said a few times . |
| 30 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |