Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loosen the holes slightly by moving arms and legs up and down a few times . |
| 2 | They swing to the top of the backswing and then practise with the left arm bouncing the club up and down a few times so that there is a feeling of taking control of the downswing and the right shoulder not wanting to push . |
| 3 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 4 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 5 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 6 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 7 | Mike come up a few times . |
| 8 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 9 | Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 11 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 12 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 13 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 14 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 15 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 16 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
| 17 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 18 | Rainbow spins it round a few times , and whistles . |