Example sentences of "[art] [adj] times [art] day " in BNC.
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1 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
2 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
3 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
4 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
5 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
6 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
7 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
8 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
9 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
10 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
11 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |