Example sentences of "a few time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 2 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 3 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 4 | Just put Webby on the right-hand side of midfield and put little Gary Crosby up the middle where he 's played a few times for Forest . |
| 5 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 6 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |
| 7 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 8 | If you are unsure what sort of a handshaker you are , practise a few times with a friend . |
| 9 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 10 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 11 | I 've done that a few times with Ju ai n't I ? |
| 12 | up there a few times with . |
| 13 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 14 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 15 | We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’ |
| 16 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |
| 17 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 18 | They circled a few times on the parquet floor in the hall . |
| 19 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 20 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 21 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |
| 22 | And then from time to time , erm in fact a few times during the year , we circulate a newsletter to something like a thousand erm companies on our list . |
| 23 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 24 | I completed tidying the loft , sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust . |
| 25 | He was a sub quite a few times towards the end of our first season in Div One . |
| 26 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 27 | After release the pigeon circles a few times around the release site for a few minutes and then flies off , usually in the approximate direction of its home loft . |
| 28 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 29 | I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go . |
| 30 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |