Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] a [adj] time " 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 | They wo n't catch me a second time . |
| 4 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 5 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 7 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 8 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 9 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 10 | Could she survive it a second time ? |
| 11 | Do n't give me a hard time , McLeish , just bloody do it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't give me a hard time , ’ she begged . |
| 13 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 14 | I 'll give you a good time . ’ |
| 15 | I can give you a good time . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll give you a little time for that one . |
| 17 | Did they give you a difficult time ? |
| 18 | ‘ At prop , if you do not show aggression and attack your opposite number , whilst contributing to making sure that your own ball is protected , you can be certain that your opponents will give you a hard time . |
| 19 | ‘ Did she give you a hard time ? ’ |
| 20 | You 'll be more than welcome — ugly and depressing though it is — we 'll show you a good time — we mean that , Hans — we really do . ’ |
| 21 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 22 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 25 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 30 | 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 . |