Example sentences of "[v-ing] several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 2 | Ah , but we 're finding that this , in fact , happening several times . |
| 3 | The author of the book of Judges shows when he was writing by remarking several times , " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did what was right in his own eyes . " |
| 4 | And Ydrys walked off , looking several times over his shoulder at Lucie , who had ‘ finished with words ’ . |
| 5 | But she 's also shy and has thought about quitting acting several times when she 's had a lukewarm review or been rejected for a role . |
| 6 | They slept then , tucked up around one another , waking several times during the night , but rarely for long enough to do more than acknowledge the other 's presence . |
| 7 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 8 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 9 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 10 | Apart from the pleasures of the bar , the hotel features dancing several times a week . |
| 11 | In corners of rural Scotland the lord lieutenant may only be required to turn out four or five times a year , but in densely populated industrial areas like the West Midlands , Charles Ian Finch-Knightley , the eleventh Earl of Aylesford , may be performing several times a month . |
| 12 | This lasted for three days and they were called-up for questioning several times each day . |
| 13 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 14 | Having slugged it out with Rufus in the Bowmer & Kirkland Novices ' Chase , the lead swapping several times , he survived a blunder at the second last to power his way to a three and a half length victory . |
| 15 | Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room . |
| 16 | We heard the gun firing several times . |
| 17 | Students , feeling it their duty to point out the shortcomings of policies and personalities in Chinese politics , exercised their traditional custom of remonstrating several times throughout Deng 's decade of reform . |
| 18 | He knew the fish was doomed Methodically , he began to splash up and down the large pool almost falling several times as he traversed the uneven sandy bottom . |
| 19 | Meridian B came close to winning several times but it was Forest who eventually scored the crucial goal in the last minute of sudden death extra time . |
| 20 | just after her conversion — a moment of mystical submission she insisted on replaying several times a day — she had kept the veil on even at meals , and forked meat and potatoes in under her mask like a gamekeeper baiting a trap . |
| 21 | This needs repeating several times because with his notorious drip paintings he came to be thought of by some as a dripster , a drooler , a mere pourer . |
| 22 | They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture . |
| 23 | He becomes extremely sarcastic , referring several times to Brutus ' honour . |
| 24 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 25 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 26 | A flight crossing several time zones but only a short visit |
| 27 | A flight crossing several time zones and staying at your destination for several days |
| 28 | He looked no happier when the Kent innings resumed , playing and missing several times before getting a touch to a magnificent Marshall delivery and providing Bobby Parks with the first of two catches . |