Example sentences of "be [vb pp] a [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 3 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 4 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 5 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 6 | ‘ Their deaths shall be avenged a thousand times ! ’ |
| 7 | The parasites will be blasted a hundred times for the indignities they have inflicted on us ! ’ |
| 8 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 9 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 10 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 11 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 12 | ‘ A bad argument remains a bad argument even if it is repeated a thousand times . ’ |
| 13 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 14 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |