Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat has relatively large eyes , and their design makes them eight times more sensitive than our own , giving it superb nocturnal vision . |
| 2 | I nine times |
| 3 | He 's abducted me six times and Nero had to send the lads to rescue me . |
| 4 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |
| 6 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 7 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 8 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 9 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 10 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 11 | ‘ She gave it to me three times , then she got difficult . ’ |
| 12 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 13 | yeah , creepy little sod and have Dave , Dave show me three times how to do a five bar gate |
| 14 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 15 | Raise your arms behind you 30 times , with hands interlocking . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't you three times , ’ he reminded her . |
| 18 | And we 've said bless you three times |
| 19 | But then she 'll ask you three times again , three times |
| 20 | Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it … |
| 21 | I love you ten times more than before . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 23 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 24 | Even if someone should sin against you seven times a day , Jesus says you should forgive those seven times ( Luke 17:4 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins . |
| 26 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 27 | Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day . |
| 28 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
| 29 | it took me five times |
| 30 | ‘ You 've made love to me five times , ’ she said . |