Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [art] few times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 2 | No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening |
| 3 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 4 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
| 5 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 6 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
| 7 | He was a very handy and determined batsman , good enough to score almost 2,000 Test runs at nearly 23 , even opening the batting a few times , and over 13,000 during his career , including 1,000 a season three times . |
| 8 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 9 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 10 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I went to the flat a few times . |
| 12 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 13 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 14 | I remember the days of the old motorbike test , when you just rode around the block a few times while the examiner walked to various points and watched you . |
| 15 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 16 | Repeat the viewing process after walking across the rug a few times , as this will show how it responds to use . |
| 17 | Satan ran back and forth on the line a few times , snout quivering as it tasted the delicious scent trace . |
| 18 | Already , after going over the encounter a few times , it was becoming , like the blue overhead , ambiguous . |
| 19 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen his name in the papers a few times , ’ murmured the superintendent , whose forehead creased with puzzlement . |
| 21 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 22 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 23 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 24 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 25 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 26 | Back on the A34 we circled a roundabout a few times to test the road-holding . |