Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 2 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 3 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 4 | I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go . |
| 5 | I completed tidying the loft , sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust . |
| 6 | Just put Webby on the right-hand side of midfield and put little Gary Crosby up the middle where he 's played a few times for Forest . |
| 7 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 8 | Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team . |
| 9 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 10 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 11 | They circled a few times on the parquet floor in the hall . |
| 12 | If you are unsure what sort of a handshaker you are , practise a few times with a friend . |
| 13 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 14 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 15 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |