Example sentences of "so [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again … |
2 | This resulted in fights and arguments — I was put on report so many times you would n't believe it . |
3 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
4 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
5 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
6 | So many times I 've thought : ‘ No more needles , no more tests , no more drugs . ' |
7 | So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death . |
8 | So many times I 've wanted to do this again … so many times … ’ |
9 | There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home . |
10 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
11 | He was very lucky , as well , it just happened so many times he |
12 | So many times she had told herself that , and each time she knew it was an impossible thing to do . |
13 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
14 | So many times she had helped at the scene of an accident and felt the same need to be with people afterwards , just to be sure , as he said , that she was still alive . |
15 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
16 | I was wrong so many times it was unbelievable . |
17 | Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you , so many times it has happened that the stranger has then run off with it . |
18 | I 've bitten my tongue so many times it 's got holes in it ’ |
19 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
20 | I did n't actually and I picked the rabbit up twice , so many times it did n't bite me . |