Example sentences of "[adj] times he " in BNC.

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1 It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out .
2 Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again .
3 At different times he published works by Sarah Fielding , Charlotte Lennox , Susanna Centlivre , Eliza Haywood , Elizabeth Carter , and Mary Barber , as well as others .
4 His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport .
5 By how few times he has lost his way ?
6 It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level .
7 Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall .
8 That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow
9 He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit .
10 I have this theory that at such times he 's communing with the mother ship which gave him his mission on this planet , but then I could be wrong .
11 Six times he has burst into the line and over for a try .
12 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 .
13 Roderick was always seeking a better way of putting things in order to remove all possible ambiguities and to assist the reader to the maximum extent : if this meant rewriting 100 times he would gladly do it .
14 The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year .
15 Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself .
16 Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill .
17 Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill .
18 ‘ Do n't let me have to do it , ’ three times he begged the Father .
19 Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it .
20 Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced .
21 Three times he had to pull over to examine the map .
22 Three times he tries to exorcise the place , but no luck .
23 so erm er th the thought , the thought did occur to me that perhaps one of these times he 's gon na actually go beyond just like talking , and perhaps touching somebody .
24 Even so , it was not sure how many times he had tried it .
25 Many times he was brought low and felt near to death .
26 Many times he had been able to explain the results of complicated chemical analyses performed in conjunction with his own rôle , for which Montgomery had cause to be grateful .
27 So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob .
28 I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more .
29 You know how many times he does n't phone .
30 Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there .
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