Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 2 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 3 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |
| 4 | Is that what you 're talking about now when you 're saying about the about erm you did n't know what to About being frightened you 've said a few times . |
| 5 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times . |
| 7 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 8 | I 've seen him play over the years er Mick , you know he 's er typical of player , we 've had him watched a few times this year , er scouts him er at Aston Villa , said he had a magnificent game . |
| 9 | Apparently , up until quite recently all Warwick basses were made with aluminium truss rods which obviously are not as strong as steel ones and are liable to break after being adjusted a few times . |
| 10 | the county keeper was shaken a few times but not often stirred |
| 11 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 12 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 13 | Just put Webby on the right-hand side of midfield and put little Gary Crosby up the middle where he 's played a few times for Forest . |
| 14 | Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team . |
| 15 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 16 | ( The various P-40 models were renamed a few times — the ‘ A , ‘ B and ‘ Cs were called the Tomahawk ; the ‘ D , ‘ E , ‘ F and ‘ Ks were known as the ‘ Kittyhawk ’ ; and the ‘ L , ‘ M and ‘ Ns were christened Warhawk ) . |
| 17 | The fish have bred a few times but each time the fry have died . |
| 18 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 19 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 20 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 21 | Which British King was married the most times ? |
| 22 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 23 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |
| 24 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |