Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
| 2 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 3 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
| 4 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 5 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
| 6 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 7 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 8 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 9 | Three times England were in command , and three times they were forced to relinquish their grasp . |
| 10 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 11 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 12 | Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill . |
| 13 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 14 | And three times it come on on and off ! |
| 15 | There is frequent intolerance to work which has real relevance and many times I have seen images dismissed with the familiar phrase , ‘ I do n't know much about art , but I know what I like ’ . |
| 16 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 17 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 18 | W we still seem to debate certain things three , four and five times they creep their way through to the main committee and full council and I have to say that the point in para B about the report we 've been sent not recognising the reduction in local er government responsibilities it it is it 's a bit rich , because our response to that report does n't recognise that when I first arrived here Chairman we had the education department which was responsible for all the schools , six colleges of further education , college of art , college of agriculture , the teacher training college at and a major polytechnic . |
| 19 | He was well known in Hochhauser and several times they were stopped and she was introduced to yet another friend , another business or civic colleague . |
| 20 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 21 | The path down to the lake shore was steep and difficult , and several times he almost fell . |
| 22 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 23 | But er and other times we were just we were working to you know , quite late you know if the there was a special job that had to be out you know . |
| 24 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 25 | I would laugh at myself because sometimes I would pull it off and other times I 'd go to reach over real fast and I 'd just go ‘ Aaaaaargh . ’ |
| 26 | some days I can bend alright , it do n't hurt and other times I ca n't |
| 27 | ‘ Sometimes his painting is large and passionate and other times it is more pretty , it depends how he feels . |
| 28 | And other times it 's not . ’ |
| 29 | Nevertheless sometimes it clearly has and other times it clearly has n't , so there does seem to be a line there , even if we do n't yet know , we certainly have to draw it . |
| 30 | In mediaeval and earlier times it was commonly called " golds " or " ruddes " ; its present name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon merso-meagalla , marsh marigold . |