Example sentences of "time [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up to him a couple of times once he only |
| 2 | Erm I 've heard it said lots of times that whatever else er you know gets forgotten , we , we will remembered for the maternity bill , it was an awful lot of work . |
| 3 | The solicitor had walked from the station to the car park so many times that he no longer noticed his surroundings . |
| 4 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've told them many times that she no longer lives here , ’ said Mr Taylor , of Newstead Road . |
| 6 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 7 | It is a recurring phenomenon and perhaps when you miss that particular notch you have to adopt original even eccentric strategies to bring the times and yourself together in the big bang of true fame and real success . |
| 8 | Erm they could have , to my way of thinking , have engaged in piecework or a reasonable incentive scheme , set with times and everything else , but er they did n't do that . |
| 9 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 10 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 11 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 12 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 13 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 14 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 15 | There 's also no pressure to come or go , no one scorns the woman who 's left home five times and who still goes back , who loves her husband and wants to be wanted . |
| 16 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 17 | She tried to bolt out several times and she finally made it . |
| 18 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 19 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 20 | I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good . |
| 21 | Since then I have flown in another black cessna stunt plane and with my dad 3 times and I also done another circuit with Andy . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's so chaotic at times and I really do n't like to have to dodge between cars with the children . ’ |
| 23 | I 've thought about what happened next a million times and I still do n't know the answer . |
| 24 | I thought about it three or four times but no-one else can do his job . |
| 25 | Tony Phillips asked the two men to leave 15 times but they only went minutes before police arrived . |
| 26 | It 's tempting to be manly and brutal at times but it often pays to be more cautions with your responses that are selected using a multiple choice system . |
| 27 | Dad thanked the man several times but he just grunted and left . |
| 28 | Hopper , who plays bad guy Koopa , storms : ‘ The movie was re-written six times before we even started — now it 's re-written every day . ’ |
| 29 | In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 . |
| 30 | In substantial problems , this technique may be used many times before one finally resolves the question . |