Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish you know but I mean during the week nine times |
| 2 | Children with rickets were passed naked through the hole three times and then drawn along the grass three times in an easterly direction . |
| 3 | Mr Austin said little at the inquest but told police in an earlier statement he had been squeezed off the road three times by the coach onto the central reservation . |
| 4 | He was our Player of the Year three times ( another club record ! ) in 1978 , 1985 and 1987 and fully earned the undying admiration and gratitude of Palace fans . |
| 5 | Notts County will disagree with that after picking the ball out of the net 5 times . |
| 6 | It forced me out of the attic three times a day to discover my new surroundings and meet the local people . |
| 7 | She plunged into the sea , grateful for the buoyancy of the salt water , then decided to push herself , swam the width of the cove six times and stumbled out onto the sand , shivering . |
| 8 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 9 | She was reminded again of that other time — of hands , cruel and insistent , travelling over her body ; of a man four times her age who in one brutal movement had stolen , as if by right , both her maidenhead and her innocence . |
| 10 | Chris Novoselic rolled a cigarette with the deliberate , weary motions of a man three times his age , while Dave Grohl sat motionless for ten minutes with a towel over his head , every now and again moaning , ‘ I think I 'm about to die ’ . |
| 11 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 12 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 13 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 14 | She 's worked this summer like a lad three times her size ! |
| 15 | Female brown plant hoppers send a signal to their mates by beating their abdomen against a leaf twenty times each second . |
| 16 | Hooker Olver , the England bench reserve for a record 27 times , explained : ‘ My friends at the Stoop did n't expect to be playing for the club at Easter , but now their re-arranged league game with Orrell is on the Monday . |
| 17 | If y stands for a number , then y + y + y + y stands for a number 4 times larger than y . |
| 18 | He played in ten Hampden finals and went home as a winner eight times . |
| 19 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 20 | Children with rickets were passed naked through the hole three times and then drawn along the grass three times in an easterly direction . |
| 21 | Imagine a star with a mass ten times that of the sun . |
| 22 | The males respond with a drumming four times as fast . |
| 23 | Lambeth also offers slightly more generous income multiples , with a maximum three times first income plus 1.5 times second income . |
| 24 | He was nominated for an Oscar eight times — not many actors have achieved that . |
| 25 | A mini-bus operates to and from the town three times a day although car hire is recommended for the less energetic . |
| 26 | The case went before the Bishop three times when John Heryng pleaded that he had already been accounted before auditors appointed by the Bishop and that the account was in possession of John Ie Baker , now churchwarden . |
| 27 | In the ‘ additional note ’ to Guy Mannering , Sir Walter Scott [ q.v. ] states that Billy was ‘ pressed or enlisted in the army seven times , and deserted as often ; besides three times running away from the Naval Service ’ . |
| 28 | Not so in the case of Jim ; a young collie cross , tortured and shot in the head 12 times with an airgun . |
| 29 | In 1863 , the race was won by Emblem and in 1864 by Emblematic — full sisters and both ridden by George Stevens who took part in the race 15 times and won a record five times . |
| 30 | Leeds had the ball in the net three times ; Man City had about three shots on target . |