Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
| 2 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 5 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 7 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 8 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 14 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 15 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 19 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 20 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 21 | ‘ Because Father is a tired old man I have spared him a hundred times , and tolerated things which are little short of intolerable . |
| 22 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |
| 23 | ‘ And Seb 's ridden him a few times . |