Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 2 | The skald Sighvat 's poem Austrfararvísur ( Eastern Travel Verses ) describes a journey to Sweden by its author on behalf of Olaf of Norway , and refers several times to a chieftain named Ragnvald , who appears once with " the wise Ulf " . |
| 3 | Other aspects of packaging may emphasise the convenience of the pack , as for example in cigarette packets which may be opened and reopened several times , or beer cans , which can be opened safely by pulling a ring . |
| 4 | Since early days , the castle has been laid waste and rebuilt many times before being inherited by the great benefactress , Lady Anne Clifford , who restored it in 1660 . |
| 5 | This process is called modularization ; data is written once and used many times in different applications . |
| 6 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |
| 7 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 8 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 9 | And stopped many times . ’ |
| 10 | The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing . |
| 11 | Progress was slow , and delayed several times . |
| 12 | She paused and snorted several times . |
| 13 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 14 | This guidebook was first published in 1959 , and it has been revised and reprinted several times since , the present copy being a revised impression of the 1981 edition . |
| 15 | A book published in 1960 , reprinted in 1962 , revised in 1968 and reprinted several times since only requires you to obtain a copy of the revised edition and not necessarily the most recent impression . |
| 16 | The Arabist listened to him calmly and nodded several times . |
| 17 | The pond must be carefully scrubbed and rinsed several times before putting the fish back . |
| 18 | I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte . |
| 19 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 20 | His discussion paper on the subject had now been drafted and redrafted several times . |
| 21 | With the options now open to couples , commitments and covenants will need to be renegotiated and re-formulated many times in the course of a lifetime as family groups move through different stages . |
| 22 | This tensing should be held for a count of five , then released , and repeated several times . |
| 23 | We stumbled and fell many times , and yet always managed to struggle up again and continue . |
| 24 | Each upper one third and lower two third portion was incubated with 0.05% pepsin ( Sigma , USA ) adjusted to pH 2.0 , for five minutes at 37°C , washed twice with 0.2 M TRIS chloride buffered saline , and aspirated and ejected several times through a disposable syringe ( 1 ml , Nipro , Tokyo ) with a 27 gauge needle . |
| 25 | Take careful note of take-offs and landings and re-walk several times if necessary . |
| 26 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 27 | He and his wife , Brenda , have been members of the club for four years and play several times a week . |
| 28 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 29 | Once covered in a tropical moist forest with rich fauna , A Luoi and A Sau valley , 60km long and between three and six kilometres wide , was defoliated and napalmed many times . |
| 30 | Alternatively , did the Tethys/Mediterranean , like the Atlantic , open and shut several times ? |