Example sentences of "[pers pn] three times " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 5 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 6 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 7 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 8 | ‘ She gave it to me three times , then she got difficult . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | yeah , creepy little sod and have Dave , Dave show me three times how to do a five bar gate |
| 11 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 12 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't you three times , ’ he reminded her . |
| 14 | And we 've said bless you three times |
| 15 | But then she 'll ask you three times again , three times |
| 16 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 17 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 18 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 19 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 20 | Yet the bowler could have had him three times , two sixes just clearing the fielder and a top edge over the wicket-keeper falling harmlessly . |
| 21 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 22 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 23 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 24 | He who had been with Christ when the voice came to him saying , ‘ This is my Son , whom I love ’ , denied him three times a few months later . |
| 25 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 26 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 27 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 28 | She had already danced with him three times . |
| 29 | You 'd still see him three times a week . " |
| 30 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |