Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you do so move your arms backwards over your head , then forward , and repeat as many times as is comfortable . |
| 2 | Sitting as straight as possible , raise and lower the towel and repeat as many times as is comfortable . |
| 3 | Director of mental health Jonathan Mumford said concentrating services in one place would make it more effective and mean less travelling time for staff , patients and families . |
| 4 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 5 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 6 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 8 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 9 | They were given a sumptuous tea and invited back any time they felt like coming . |
| 10 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 11 | This is something we discussed and thrashed out last time ? |
| 12 | ½ lb self-raising flour and ¼ ; lb suet scant 1 tsp baking powder and 1½ tsp cinnamon 2 fl oz each milk and water , mixed ¾ ; lb kumquats , washed and pricked about 5 times each 6 oz chilled and diced butter 5 oz granulated sugar |
| 13 | A group of former Young Farmers who appeared in the film came together for a lunchtime drink to remember the making of the film and to talk over old times . |
| 14 | Rizzio was dragged into a neighbouring closet — now a feature of every visitor 's tour through the palace — and stabbed about fifty times . |
| 15 | It was followed by the educational ‘ comic ’ , Orbit ( published by the Commission for Technical Education and Vocational Training ) , which was sold through schools and came out three times a term . |
| 16 | She sat on the tool-box , pressing her hat to her head , and looking not this time out to sea but at all that was passing and being left behind . |
| 17 | The job it was created to do — establish Unix SVR4 — was completed and done successfully some time ago . |
| 18 | As Lou explains , the concoction is created in a shaker and stirred exactly 23 times in a counter-clockwise motion . |
| 19 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 20 | During this period it has built up an impressive reputation for its concerts , broadcasts and recordings , having given over 1000 concerts in Britain , played in almost 50 countries spanning four continents and broadcast over 100 times for the BBC alone . |
| 21 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 22 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 23 | However , a £3000 reward is certain to attract a quality entry and McKinstry just might have some very stiff opposition to contend with even if Tarmac champion Bertie Fisher sticks to his guns and opts out this time . |
| 24 | For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually , and has appeared and disappeared again several times since . |
| 25 | Rangers streamed forward , and went close several times before the woodwork again came to Tottenham 's rescue , denying Sinton in the 16th minute . |
| 26 | Electric models are clean and efficient but cable must be run out and stored away each time . |
| 27 | Of course taking logarithms and dropping down one time derivative does little to alter the spirit of the analysis and does much to expose the intuition behind this very influential relation . |
| 28 | Personally , I exercise and run about three times a week , early in the morning . |
| 29 | Fry , dismissed by the 20-stone ticket-broker for the third time yesterday , wo n't be kissing and making up this time … he 'll sue for wrongful dismissal . |
| 30 | Those two crooks must have been killed and resurrected about seven times when they fell into all Kevin 's traps and things . |