Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] 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 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 3 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hick , a member of their 1983 World Cup squad when only 17 , will be opposing them this time . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 7 | after you let him buy them last time ! |
| 8 | Why should we trust them this time ? |
| 9 | You 've seen Micia have kittens-Mother of God , she has them four times a year . |
| 10 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 11 | ‘ The cutlets yes , certainly , since the Prince rejected them first time round , and asked for them later , ’ dredging up memories from the depths of his mind . |
| 12 | RANGERS are to spend £500,000 on a new pitch in time for next season — assuming an abbreviated summer break allows them enough time to restore the worst playing surface Walter Smith can remember in his time at Ibrox , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 13 | PUCCI For those too young to remember them last time , or those too eccentric to care . |
| 14 | As for the others , there 's a hard core who attend virtually all the Circle 's functions ; I 've seen them many times over the years . |
| 15 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 16 | Give me a list , I 'll bring them next time . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 19 | Got ta see them next time . |
| 20 | It does n't take in the fact that you 're actually paying them double time for overtime . |
| 21 | And now you have Prozac , why should we believe them this time ? |
| 22 | The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff . |
| 23 | She intones , in ominous transatlantic baritone : ‘ We licked them this time , but they 'll be back again . |
| 24 | Give them enough time and they 'd catch up with Blackbeard , if Blackbeard really was the killer . |
| 25 | If customer complaints pass your desk , ensure that you give them maximum time and personal attention . |
| 26 | To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland ! |
| 27 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've told them many times that she no longer lives here , ’ said Mr Taylor , of Newstead Road . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |
| 30 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |