Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 2 | He asked them a few times . |
| 3 | Dutch radio was coming in good but the commentators were extremely biased and almost wet themselves a few times . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 6 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 7 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 11 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 12 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 13 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 14 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 15 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 16 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 17 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
| 18 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 19 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 20 | Talks between the two sides continued during November and reached agreement on Nov. 24 , forming what the Financial Times of Nov. 30 called " a viable corporatism " . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 28 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 29 | I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before . |
| 30 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |