Example sentences of "[det] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 2 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 3 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 4 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 5 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 6 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 7 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 8 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 9 | ‘ He needs to combine conciliation and compromise with a willingness to get mean a few times and draw lines against big business . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 11 | He simply shook his head a few times and went on grinning . |
| 12 | Storms Morrissey , at No 23 in the charts with former band The Smiths ' This Charming Man : ‘ I 've met Vic Reeves a few times and I ca n't believe he 'd do something so hurtful . |
| 13 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 14 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 15 | He cleared his throat a few times and groaned like an aged dog in pain . |
| 16 | They thump your chest a few times and call the old crash unit and then they grope around for your pulse , but it 's a very amateurish affair really . ’ |
| 17 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 18 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 19 | he assaulted me a f few times and the last time he did it I involved the police and he was in court last Thursday and he was found guilty of assault . |
| 20 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |
| 21 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
| 22 | Same as sex , you got ta try that a few times and then find out if you like it ! |
| 23 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 24 | We are concerned if we perform badly or dangerously at some times and the effects of poor performance will also be of interest to managers and the general public . |
| 25 | Without them the phrase ‘ extra-judicial documents ’ would appear almost unlimited in scope , while its French equivalent ‘ actes extra-judiciares ’ has been given , at some times and in some jurisdictions , a narrow and technical meaning . |
| 26 | Irregular employment and unemployment were also important , more at some times and places than others . |
| 27 | She had undressed many men , she had read somewhere that nakedness was safest , because with the mystery gone humans were just humans , not that exciting , nothing special , and she believed it , for some times and for some human beings . |
| 28 | Jamie Richmond added another on the stroke of half time and Gert Jan Vreevurg brought the score up to 7-0 with a slapshot from the point . |
| 29 | The Wallabies led 33-3 at half time and finished 46-13 winners . |
| 30 | offices as well , but erm , and I know she 's half time and some offices have only got a quarter , but as I say , she 's the busiest person I know and , and she 's |