Example sentences of "[art] same [noun] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 2 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 3 | In an automatic attempt to improve this the sender will find himself repeating the same statements several times , with variations , in response to repeated questions from the receivers . |
| 4 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
| 5 | Polish and German farmers collaborated throughout the Prussian east to extract huge sums of money from the Commission through the sale and resale of the same property several times over — each time at an ‘ improved ’ price . |
| 6 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 7 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |