Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] times [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I virtually neglected in my writing the feelings that belonged to my own nature and my own times of life — an irreparable loss , whether great or not . |
| 2 | But I think I can say I had some of my happiest times in the army . |
| 3 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 4 | Kathleen had warned her countless times in the past , but this time she had had enough . |
| 5 | The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner . |
| 6 | The woman , not named by police , was walking home in Stevenage , Herts , on Sunday night when a man wielding a large knife slashed her three times on the forehead , leaving one cut seven inches long . |
| 7 | I took her three times within the two hours spent in that passage . |
| 8 | When Mr Leckey asked whether the fact Moore telephoned her three times before the killings and once afterwards showed there was ‘ something special in the relationship ’ , she said she did not know why he called . |
| 9 | ‘ But I have beaten her three times in a row , which proves the point . |
| 10 | A YOUNG mother claimed yesterday that justice has been done after her former boyfriend was convicted of assaulting her three times in one night . |
| 11 | After sketching her many times over the past two days in all sorts of positions , and studying the sketches for an hour earlier this morning , Faye was now ready to paint . |
| 12 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 13 | Since he painted her fourteen times in all , the detail may be mistaken . |
| 14 | All she needed to do now was put her troubled times behind her and win the game . |
| 15 | The groups did not differ in their card-sorting times on the other task . |
| 16 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 17 | These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles . |
| 18 | Certainly Verbivore is characteristic of its cybernetic times in that it is more ‘ user-friendly ’ than much of Brooke-Rose 's previous work . |
| 19 | The probably crazy Frankie introduces himself several times during the LP in a mad US radio DJ voice , and if that is n't novelty enough to make this worthy buying , then ignore it and just marvel at that great voice . |
| 20 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |
| 21 | Siferwas depicted himself several times in the habit of a Dominican friar . |
| 22 | But gratefulness turned to horror on October 28 last year when , McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , assaulted her four times in the space of three hours . |
| 23 | Now the fear of renewed terrorism sparked by war in the Gulf has emptied airports and aeroplanes , giving airlines their harshest times in living memory . |
| 24 | But Meyer rammed the words of sceptics , who doubted her reported times from the Republic , back down their throats . |
| 25 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 28 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 29 | Mr Fuller had been shot once in the body and she several times in the head . |
| 30 | " I have met you several times with Edward . " |