Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 30 times . |
| 2 | From here , lift the leg up and down 10 times , each time raising it no further than 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 3 | Nick got up and down three times from bunkers , at the 7th , 8th and 10th , and they were really crucial . |
| 4 | ‘ Zak put on the next scene of the mystery and Sheridan shouted him down three times . |
| 5 | He 's been down three times in his career , but always got up to win . |
| 6 | It has burned down three times and is today known as Her Majesty 's . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 8 | But Patterson was knocked down more times than any heavy-weight champ — with Joe Louis in second place . |
| 9 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 25 times . |
| 10 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 11 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 12 | Fifty million people breathe air containing more than 10 times the permitted level of pollutants ; 60 million more breathe in five times the permitted level of pollutants . |
| 13 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 14 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 15 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 16 | He had to put it down several times . |
| 17 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 18 | Bernard was happy to drive up and down several times in a week , but Laura felt the need for a base . |
| 19 | This is held over the blocked plug hole and worked up and down several times to force water down the waste pipe . |
| 20 | She should n't have to do that and she has narrowly avoided being knocked down several times herself . ’ |
| 21 | I mean these people , there 's things like throwing broken milk bottles , throwing milk bottles into peoples yards , removing bicycles , picking up my bicycle , as it happens , and throwing it down several times , erm going down the streets playing a sound system full volume at two o'clock in the morning , which generally left people feeling they did n't know what was happening . |
| 22 | It happened with the help of a loose monetary policy , under which the central bank 's discount rate was pushed down four times in 1985–87 , to a historic low of 2.5% . |
| 23 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 24 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down 20 times . |
| 25 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 26 | Catherine had spent most of the evenings , during the last two weeks , at Amy 's Knightsbridge house talking over old times , remembering people from the past , while her husband prowled about restlessly . |
| 27 | I wonder when we might arrange a meeting to talk over old times ? |
| 28 | They talked over old times . |
| 29 | Chatting over old times . |
| 30 | Mr Falah , who is president of an association of Libyan Jews that includes two Israeli members of parliament , recently spent two hours mulling over old times with Colonel Qaddafi , and emerged with a promise of compensation for Jewish property sequestrated by the Libyan regime . |