Example sentences of "[art] few time [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If you are unsure what sort of a handshaker you are , practise a few times with a friend .
3 The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it .
4 You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ?
5 We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’
6 They circled a few times on the parquet floor in the hall .
7 Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court .
8 I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed .
9 Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year .
10 And then from time to time , erm in fact a few times during the year , we circulate a newsletter to something like a thousand erm companies on our list .
11 I completed tidying the loft , sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust .
12 He was a sub quite a few times towards the end of our first season in Div One .
13 After release the pigeon circles a few times around the release site for a few minutes and then flies off , usually in the approximate direction of its home loft .
14 She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her .
15 I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go .
16 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 .
17 ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused .
18 He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past .
19 I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden .
20 Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away .
21 tossed over a few times in the night , burnt me eyes out
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