Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 3 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 4 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 5 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 11 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 14 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |