Example sentences of "[verb] him [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he is betting that the Department of Health will not prosecute him this time . |
| 4 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 5 | His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night 's sleep . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll audition him any time ! ’ |
| 8 | I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time ! |
| 9 | ‘ Less than a minute ahead , ’ he muttered ‘ With any luck , I should overtake him this time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't give him enough time , you and Boyd , ’ said Mrs Palichuk . |
| 11 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 12 | Two other garages have been hit by the same man in just 6 days and a police helicopter is on standby to track him next time he strikes . |
| 13 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 14 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 15 | yeah sometimes , I 've phoned him more times than he 's phoned me , put it that way |
| 16 | You 'd still see him three times a week . " |
| 17 | The national press can see him any time . |
| 18 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 19 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 20 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 21 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 22 | Threaten to smack him next time . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) At all events , from that age , make him do as he is bid , if you whip him ten times running to effect it . |
| 24 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 25 | The decision appears to have been prompted in part by an assumption that it would either discredit Heseltine by forcing him to back off from a challenge ( which was thought most likely ) or , if he did stand , give him insufficient time to mount an effective campaign . |
| 26 | ‘ Got him that time , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 27 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 28 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 29 | I 've told him four times . |
| 30 | Yet the bowler could have had him three times , two sixes just clearing the fielder and a top edge over the wicket-keeper falling harmlessly . |