Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She a few times . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel ! |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’ |
| 7 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 8 | I 'll give you a little time for that one . |
| 9 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | I 'll give you a good time . ’ |
| 13 | I can give you a good time . ’ |
| 14 | You 'll be more than welcome — ugly and depressing though it is — we 'll show you a good time — we mean that , Hans — we really do . ’ |
| 15 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 16 | If you do n't know them it 's going to take you a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 19 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 20 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 21 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 22 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 23 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 24 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't forget who you 're talking to here — I 've known you a long time , remember ? |
| 26 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 27 | Well Charlotte it 's not easy , it 's gon na take you a long time , but then so |
| 28 | Gerber , with 19 international tries in 24 Tests , is considering retirement when he returns to the Republic , insisting : ‘ When you are 24 your mistakes are forgiven , but when you are my age every game has to be excellent or the critics give you a difficult time . |
| 29 | Did they give you a difficult time ? |
| 30 | It would n't come across as very credible if I trusted you a third time . |