Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining . |
| 2 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 4 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 5 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 6 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 7 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw him several times a day and he asked about my baby 's father . |
| 9 | I said it three times , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I wrote him several times and all the answer I ever got was I 'm well-here-and-I-hope-you-are-well-there . |
| 11 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 12 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 13 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 14 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 15 | She could never remember the Alice 's registration number without looking it up , though she saw it twenty times a day . |
| 16 | ‘ You said it three times ? ’ |
| 17 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 18 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 19 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 20 | Even when I did believe it we discussed it several times , but he would n't change his mind . |
| 21 | yeah yeah what did you say they did it three times ? |
| 22 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 23 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 24 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 25 | When he had the message , he read it several times . |
| 26 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 27 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 28 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 29 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 30 | He hit me many times and my arm was red . |