Example sentences of "[adv prt] several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 4 | He had to put it down several times . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bernard was happy to drive up and down several times in a week , but Laura felt the need for a base . |
| 7 | This is held over the blocked plug hole and worked up and down several times to force water down the waste pipe . |
| 8 | She should n't have to do that and she has narrowly avoided being knocked down several times herself . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It rolled over and over several times , preening its paws . |
| 11 | Bill had books , and tobacco , and a book token from Marcus with a Brueghel snowscene reproduced on the front , which he turned over several times as though it must contain some message other than " Happy Christmas , love Marcus ' written neatly on the dotted line . |
| 12 | She fell over several times , but came to no harm in the soft , forgiving snow . |
| 13 | He bowled over several times before rising in a confusion of camouflage , clutching his spectacles to his face and taking to his heels . |
| 14 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 15 | The weather was cold and windy and during the photographs my hat blew off several times . |
| 16 | I felt like shouting at Silver to fuck off several times . |
| 17 | ‘ Rose woke me up several times during the night , ’ Laura explained . |
| 18 | Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . |
| 19 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 20 | He continued in this vein for a couple of minutes , tripping himself up several times . |
| 21 | So if you go , if you page up several times to get to the start of the document . |
| 22 | The policeman up several times |
| 23 | The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ? |
| 24 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 25 | One or two families came back several times , and we exchanged cards and news at Christmas . |
| 26 | He rang back several times to say that the word was ‘ no . ’ |
| 27 | Since then thieves have been back several times with cars and sledgehammers |
| 28 | The stock-taking announcement , which was initially expected last year , has been put back several times . |
| 29 | Because Sheriff Hamilton is a floating sheriff , the case had to be put back several times to allow him to pass sentence when he was next at Hamilton . |
| 30 | There was an almost equally dramatic sequel to the race when Carroll House , who is known to be a highly strung individual , lashed out several times as he was returning and almost caught well-wishers patting his quarters . |