Example sentences of "times he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By then La Rotonde , which had opened in 1911 , had become the place for artists to meet , and every morning Nina met Modi selling his drawings for five francs ( although in bad times he reduced the price to three francs ) .
2 Both times he drove the spawn of Naggaroth off but always they return .
3 Several times he had the nose of his car in front , only to be thwarted by some brave late-braking by the Jaguar man .
4 ‘ Do n't let me have to do it , ’ three times he begged the Father .
5 But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh .
6 Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill .
7 You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting .
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