Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 2 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 3 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 4 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 5 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 6 | She was bound and helpless , and I 've masturbated a million times imagining girls I know in such situations . ’ |
| 7 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 8 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 9 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 10 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 11 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 12 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 13 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |