Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are told enough times that you are incapable , you begin to believe it and lose the self-confidence you need to do your job … |
| 2 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 3 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 5 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 6 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |