Example sentences of "[pron] a [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel ! |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’ |
| 6 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 7 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 8 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 9 | if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 11 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 12 | There are , after all , even larger numbers : 10 46 , for instance , is not just larger ; you must add 10 40 to itself a million times in order to obtain 10 46 What if we could somehow muster a gang of 10 46 monkeys each with its own typewriter ? |
| 13 | The bells here are famous ; the clarion , ‘ We Greet Thee a Thousand Times ’ which is rung at midday was created by the clockmaker , P. Naumann in 1694 . |
| 14 | People will have to tell me a million times before it gets through to me . ’ |
| 15 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 16 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 17 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 18 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 19 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 20 | I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times . |
| 21 | And if he excites himself — distrust him a hundred times more . |
| 22 | ‘ Because Father is a tired old man I have spared him a hundred times , and tolerated things which are little short of intolerable . |
| 23 | " You may invite him a hundred times , " said Honor tightly , " but I will never marry him . " |
| 24 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 25 | And the very fact that the experience will never ever be repeated will make the remembrance burn for her a hundred times as bright . |
| 26 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 27 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 28 | By shutting this door to exclude fear , even if you have to do it a million times , you are making the statement that you decide not to let that thought feed on your life 's energy . |
| 29 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 30 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |