Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , he phoned you late last time . |
| 2 | I phoned you about three times |
| 3 | You told me about six times ! |
| 4 | we hired him so many times |
| 5 | Portraying 80 years of Queen Victoria 's life in 2 hours , she starred in the role for 517 performances on Broadway , and played it over 400 times more in a 1937-38 tour that grossed an unheard-of $1.2 million at the box office . |
| 6 | ‘ They fed us about five times on the plane , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Antonia could be very foul-mouthed and rang me about 20 times , sometimes in tears , saying ‘ that bastard has n't left his wife yet ’ . ’ |
| 8 | He hit her violently several times , on both sides of the head , and she fell into a chair , trembling . |
| 9 | He had looked into her eyes too often , told her that he loved her too many times for her ever to believe him again . |
| 10 | Under the previous legislation the Secretary of State had the discretion to turn down applications but exercised it only 519 times in the space of five years . |
| 11 | Of course she was smiling — if she handled it right this time , she might be able to ask him point blank for a particular day and time for that — perhaps not so accursed — interview . |
| 12 | ‘ I met her only three times , ’ he said shortly . |
| 13 | In the two months Coleman spent at Eurame , he met him there three times , including one occasion when ‘ Nazzie ’ volunteered the information that he was on his way to Houston with a load . |
| 14 | I saw them here last time when I looked at them . |
| 15 | Took me quite some time to find the key , the connection between the code and the Odyssey . |
| 16 | it took me quite some time to cross that road ; |
| 17 | Their infectious Irish rhythms and lilting harmonies captivated the house , but when the little pocket diva sang her solo this time , she ‘ wowed ’ them , she ‘ knocked them cold ’ , she was ‘ sensational ’ , or whatever other cliche theatre people use to describe a successful performance . |
| 18 | Sinking down on her bed , she found that it took her quite some time to get herself more of one piece . |
| 19 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 20 | I cross the park , as I crossed it so many times in the past , and regain the modest Edwardian streets beyond Maze Hill . |
| 21 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 22 | It took us both some time to wake up to the fact that the world did n't owe us a living . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My policy saved me so much time and money , ’ he says . |
| 24 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 25 | ‘ We did it well this time , I think , and there was a progressive build-up , not a sudden challenge . |
| 26 | Won it about six times . |
| 27 | Which is since we had him here last time but we just ai n't had time to get it do by . |
| 28 | His work for various public bodies left him little spare time . |
| 29 | This left him very little time to sleep during the nine-week schedule . |
| 30 | Margaret Thatcher herself said it so many times in reply to ‘ wet ’ critics that it became known , not very affectionately , as Tina . |