Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [art] [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 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 3 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 4 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 5 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 13 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 14 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 15 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
| 16 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 17 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 18 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 19 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 20 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 21 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 25 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 26 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
| 27 | I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before . |
| 28 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 29 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |