Example sentences of "few time [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I completed tidying the loft , sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust . |
5 | We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’ |
6 | They circled a few times on the parquet floor in the hall . |
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 | 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 ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He was a sub quite a few times towards the end of our first season in Div One . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
16 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
17 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
18 | ( ‘ lt is normal to feel self-conscious and conspicuous on your first few times in the field ; do not let this distract you from the Subject . ’ ) |
19 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
20 | tossed over a few times in the night , burnt me eyes out |
21 | I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go . |
22 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |