Example sentences of "how [det] times have " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times had she watched him do that ? |
| 2 | And how many times had she thought how easy it would be to poison him ? |
| 3 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 4 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 5 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 6 | How many times had I heard that remark ? |
| 7 | How many times had I heard , ‘ This is your home , ’ ‘ These are your sons , ’ ‘ You are my sister , ’ ‘ They are your daughters ’ ? |
| 8 | How many times had Tabitha heard , in casual conversation in some dorm , some station bar , from pilots who had found their craft taking a route they had never intended , never charted ? |
| 9 | How many times had she heard him tell someone that ? |
| 10 | How many times had come down here with Mickey — dead now , killed in the Rising — to watch the trains come steaming in ? |
| 11 | How many times had Kate snuck into a school hall , late for some school event , her male driver beside her cringing with embarrassment at the childish antics on stage . |
| 12 | How many times had she come to tuck Lizzy in when she had been small ? |
| 13 | How many times had she pulled in young girls over the years ? |
| 14 | How many times had she said that to people ? |
| 15 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 16 | How many times had she reached out to him , trying to rouse the passion they used to share ? |
| 17 | How many times had he caused this quick , sudden ache in her ? |
| 18 | How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait . |
| 19 | How many times had Charles and her father put her down , discounted her opinions ? |
| 20 | How many times has it happened ? |
| 21 | How many times has Mummy told you not to wander off like that ? ’ |
| 22 | Yet how many times has America sided with Israeli aggression against the people of Palestine ? |
| 23 | How many times has America used its veto to maintain Israel 's occupation of three Arab countries and to permit the continued killing of men , women , and children in occupied Palestine ? |
| 24 | I know I pulled him out once but how many times has he pulled me out ! |
| 25 | But how many times has a manufacturer of , say , microphones said , ‘ Look at the specification of our new such-and-such ; it beats the Shure SM58 hands down . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , how many times has someone tried to re-invent the fret ? |
| 27 | how many times has this happened to you ? |
| 28 | I mean how many times has somebody knocked on your door , Oh I 'm Joe Bloggs I 've come to sell dusters ? |
| 29 | How many times has Rocastle played for England ? |
| 30 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |