Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 2 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 3 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 4 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 5 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 13 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 14 | I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times . |
| 15 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 16 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 17 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Is that what you 're talking about now when you 're saying about the about erm you did n't know what to About being frightened you 've said a few times . |
| 19 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 20 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 21 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 22 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 23 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 24 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 27 | She was bound and helpless , and I 've masturbated a million times imagining girls I know in such situations . ’ |
| 28 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The fish have bred a few times but each time the fry have died . |