Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
| 2 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 3 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 4 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 5 | You 've seen Micia have kittens-Mother of God , she has them four times a year . |
| 6 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 7 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 8 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 9 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 10 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 11 | yeah , creepy little sod and have Dave , Dave show me three times how to do a five bar gate |
| 12 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 13 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 14 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 15 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 16 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 17 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 18 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 19 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 20 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 21 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 22 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 23 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 24 | The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over . |
| 25 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 27 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 28 | I 've seen it three times now . |
| 29 | Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it … |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |