Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [num] times " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |