Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [num] time " in BNC.

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1 It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise .
2 They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse .
3 Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate .
4 He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more .
5 I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human .
6 The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband .
7 He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock .
8 Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing .
9 She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had .
10 And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before .
11 Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck .
12 It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life .
13 He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before .
14 ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said .
15 It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields .
16 I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before .
17 Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling .
18 The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake .
19 It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored .
20 She was bound and helpless , and I 've masturbated a million times imagining girls I know in such situations . ’
21 It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction .
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