Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] times [prep] " 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 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 3 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 4 | But gratefulness turned to horror on October 28 last year when , McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , assaulted her four times in the space of three hours . |
| 5 | But Meyer rammed the words of sceptics , who doubted her reported times from the Republic , back down their throats . |
| 6 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 7 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 8 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 9 | Siferwas depicted himself several times in the habit of a Dominican friar . |
| 10 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since he painted her fourteen times in all , the detail may be mistaken . |
| 13 | " I have met you several times with Edward . " |
| 14 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 15 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 16 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 17 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 18 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 19 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 20 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 21 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 22 | Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past . |
| 23 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 24 | When Mr Leckey asked whether the fact Moore telephoned her three times before the killings and once afterwards showed there was ‘ something special in the relationship ’ , she said she did not know why he called . |
| 25 | The woman , not named by police , was walking home in Stevenage , Herts , on Sunday night when a man wielding a large knife slashed her three times on the forehead , leaving one cut seven inches long . |
| 26 | The probably crazy Frankie introduces himself several times during the LP in a mad US radio DJ voice , and if that is n't novelty enough to make this worthy buying , then ignore it and just marvel at that great voice . |
| 27 | ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins . |
| 28 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 29 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 30 | 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 . |