Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 2 | The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her . |
| 3 | We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again … |
| 4 | This resulted in fights and arguments — I was put on report so many times you would n't believe it . |
| 5 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 6 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 7 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 8 | So many times I 've thought : ‘ No more needles , no more tests , no more drugs . ' |
| 9 | So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death . |
| 10 | So many times I 've wanted to do this again … so many times … ’ |
| 11 | There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home . |
| 12 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 13 | He was very lucky , as well , it just happened so many times he |
| 14 | So many times she had told herself that , and each time she knew it was an impossible thing to do . |
| 15 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 16 | So many times she had helped at the scene of an accident and felt the same need to be with people afterwards , just to be sure , as he said , that she was still alive . |
| 17 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 18 | I was wrong so many times it was unbelievable . |
| 19 | Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you , so many times it has happened that the stranger has then run off with it . |
| 20 | I 've bitten my tongue so many times it 's got holes in it ’ |
| 21 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
| 22 | I did n't actually and I picked the rabbit up twice , so many times it did n't bite me . |
| 23 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 24 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 25 | In more peaceful times he had assisted many of the ladies of the cantonment in childbirth . |
| 26 | For more recent times we have the evidence of county gaols , lock-ups , courthouses , prisons , particularly of the Victorian era , which are well documented and have generally survived . |
| 27 | In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug . |
| 28 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 29 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 30 | In these decidedly digital times it is unusual to hear of a new high priced pickup cartridge intended to complement the very best turntable systems available . |