Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The demonstrations were mostly started by first- and second-year students ’ , I was told several times , ‘ but the government are punishing the graduates . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | She 's phoned several times over the past couple of days . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 9 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 10 | He 's refused many times to do another Fawlty Towers . ’ |
| 11 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 12 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 13 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
| 14 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |
| 15 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 16 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 17 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 18 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 19 | He suffered constantly from fever ; he was frequently threatened by bandits and once nearly murdered ; he was injured several times ; he endured hot summers and cold winters and periodical earthquakes . |
| 20 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 21 | It was a promise he was to keep many times . |
| 22 | Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour . |