Example sentences of "[num] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out . |
2 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
3 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
4 | We can the the constant is no problem we can always if we 've got ten times it five times it minus point six times it |
5 | Six times he has burst into the line and over for a try . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
8 | So like , you go one , two , three , four , five , six six times you swap |
9 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Three times England were in command , and three times they were forced to relinquish their grasp . |
12 | Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) . |
13 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
14 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
15 | Three times they blanket the fire |
16 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
17 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
18 | Three times it did this , then , satisfied , it flashed — electric blue — into the reeds and disappeared . |
19 | Right , what do you do with when you 're doing G , you do three times it |
20 | And three times it come on on and off ! |
21 | We 've said find three quarters by finding one quarter first and then you take three times it . |
22 | The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her . |
23 | Three times she stopped before reaching Charing Cross , abruptly breaking the current of pedestrians so people stepped around her , glancing , while she said , ‘ No … ’ and turned back from where she had come , only to turn again , move on . |
24 | Once , twice , three times she did it , each time picking up the card and examining it . |
25 | Three times she went one side of a tree when Schmidt went the other , emerging again without breaking her conversation . |
26 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
27 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
28 | You can generally borrow up to 90% of the value of the new home , and you can borrow as much as three times you salary : the loan will usually be for a maximum of 25 years . |
29 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
30 | That 's three times you try to fall that , if you have an industrial injury |