Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His car has been stolen or broken into 7 times , his home in Swindon has seen numerous burglaries . |
| 2 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 3 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 4 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 5 | Can copy be accessed from several files and displayed at one time ? |
| 6 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 7 | Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 9 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 10 | In 1988 Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , war hero of campaigns in the south and described at one time as having fought a ‘ perfect tank battle ’ in the desert near the Howeizah marshes , was said to be under house arrest . |
| 11 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |