Example sentences of "times [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’
2 ‘ But where did you get that bit about Gay Times calling me ‘ the most gorgeous man in British football ’ ? ’
3 ‘ Lewis has reneged six times to fight me , ’ claimed Bowe .
4 How many times did I tell you I loved you back in Seville ? ’
5 Joe tried times to get me over erm , yeah Mrs
6 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you , Hawkins , my name 's Doctor Streeter , not Miss Streeter ; now come up here and wipe that filth off . ’
7 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you I do n't know this McCloy ? ’
8 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you not to dawdle ?
9 How many more times do I have to tell you ? ’
10 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you ? ’
11 How many times do I have to spell it out ?
12 How many times do I have to repeat it ?
13 How many times do I have to tell myself not to get lost ?
14 ‘ How many fucking times do I have to tell you ? ’ snarled Scott .
15 ‘ Well , how many more times do I have to explain it ? ’ he roared .
16 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you I 'm not setting foot inside that house ? ’
17 How many times do I have to tell you I ca n't stand it ? ’ he demanded stormily .
18 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you that I do n't want to talk about him ? ’
19 ‘ How many more times do I have to tell you ?
20 There is another question , how many times do I forgive somebody .
21 ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ?
22 How many times do I have to tell you do n't run over the board !
23 Here , Gavrilov at times struck me as insufficiently expansive — not least in the intimate revelations of the introduction , and still more in the frenetic climax and the five magical pianissimo chords that follow , as if from another world , towards the end .
24 Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years .
25 However they might have trouble finding adjectives to do these performances justice : his breathtaking virtuosity , which takes appalling difficulties of the music in its stride , at times had me bogeared in admiration .
26 How many times had I heard that remark ?
27 How many times had I heard , ‘ This is your home , ’ ‘ These are your sons , ’ ‘ You are my sister , ’ ‘ They are your daughters ’ ?
28 How many times had I prayed for the impossible ?
29 How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait .
30 How many times have I heard you ?
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