Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] times [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 4 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 5 | Mr Fuller had been shot once in the body and she several times in the head . |
| 6 | " I have met you several times with Edward . " |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | As for the others , there 's a hard core who attend virtually all the Circle 's functions ; I 've seen them many times over the years . |
| 9 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 11 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
| 12 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 13 | And it was Rosemary who finished up in casualty after Carssier kicked her three times in the stomach ! |
| 14 | At a huge Hollywood party given in his honour in 1983 , his screen sparring partner Burt Lancaster announced , ‘ I 've worked with him many times over the span of years , and I think I know him pretty well . |
| 15 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 16 | He pulled her to the ground and indecently assaulted her but abandoned the attack after the woman screamed and bit him several times on one hand . |
| 17 | ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining . |
| 18 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 19 | Steve Savage of Grafton met him several times after Frankfurt . |
| 20 | He was walking along a quiet street when gunmen shot him several times in the head . |
| 21 | Bereavement and the sorrow it brings is the price most of us have to pay sooner or later for the joy of loving , and it is a bill that the elderly have usually had presented to them several times in their lives in one form or another . |
| 22 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 23 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 24 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 25 | The new Emperor called for lights , examined the face , then thrust at it three times with a sword . |
| 26 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 27 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 28 | What is equally undeniable is Die Auferstehung 's status as a masterwork ( Mozart conducted it three times in 1788 , expressing no small amount of enthusiasm ) , and this recording 's fine presentation of the piece , worthy to stand beside Hermann Max 's [ see my review of JS Bach 's Magnificat below — Ed. ] splendid Capriccio recording ( coupled with . |
| 29 | Matilda had read it many times with fascination . |
| 30 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |