Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 2 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 3 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 4 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 5 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 6 | His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night 's sleep . |
| 7 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 8 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 10 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 12 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 13 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 14 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 15 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 16 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 17 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 18 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 19 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 20 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 21 | He hit me many times and my arm was red . |
| 22 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 23 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 24 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 25 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 26 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 27 | ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining . |
| 28 | Steve Savage of Grafton met him several times after Frankfurt . |
| 29 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 30 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |