Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried six times but got turned down because I was n't sixty . |
| 2 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 3 | There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education . |
| 4 | I dined four times at various places and went to a drunk party at Worcester in someone 's rooms I did not know . |
| 5 | Forget Mellor , I scored 5 times a night in Chelsea strip … |
| 6 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 7 | I signed three times . |
| 8 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 9 | Bob Torrance reshaped my swing and I worked 10 times harder than ever — all the top guys work harder than anyone else . |
| 10 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 11 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 12 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 13 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 14 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 15 | but like I said nine times out of ten if I 've got pissed off with an album I change all of them . |
| 16 | I use the phrase hypocritical exhortation , because I know Jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so I think the phrase hypocritical exhortation I said three times in relation |
| 17 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 18 | She came three times before he did , her legs wrapped round him , her screams muffled against the force of his hand . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 've heard Mark say it before , Father , ’ she replied Eleven times to be exact , she added savagely , under her breath . |
| 20 | She circled three times , then thought to herself , ‘ Maybe I should just take any exit — at least I 'll be heading somewhere . ’ |
| 21 | and I did hear , somebody told me like that the reason erm house prices shot up , you went three times as a a as high in value in what a matter of moments |
| 22 | She remembered one time when a nurse had beckoned Dot into a side room , pulled over a metal chair for Dot , and brought the bundle to her wrapped in a bulky scratchy blanket . |
| 23 | So you did three times fifty ? |
| 24 | She said , she said four times yesterday |
| 25 | T V and a video we sold six times . |
| 26 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 27 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 28 | You see , and so we went to oh Inverness , Aberdeen and across to the Isle of Skye , and down the Skye and back across the water to Mallaig you see and er then we stayed one time at Fort William and because I love Scotland , so did he and erm and , and then and all r and then , and another thing , erm , this is before I married erm I went down , oh no , both of us , that 's right , we went down to stay at erm not , not Portsmouth er Southsea er there , there 's a place near there , next door |
| 29 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 30 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |