Example sentences of "times [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 2 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 3 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |
| 4 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 5 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 6 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 7 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 8 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 9 | This continues with the ‘ shark ’ saying different times until it says ‘ dinner time ’ . |
| 10 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 11 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 12 | I 'm trying to explain to you that there was a different atmosphere about it , the whole situation , I know they were hard times , I know that some people had some really rough times but it did n't show very much , and when I come to think of all my parents ' friends I do n't remember anybody having a wife bashing episode or they all seemed to be very contented with their lot somehow except one , and that was a little bit dicey when I was a little kid , but the man died and the Observer the next week the er obituary notice was put in the paper and underneath they 'd got , with Christ which is far better and my father said and they she could n't have said anything better words |
| 13 | The second funniest election story , also courtesy of the Telegraph 's excellent City Diary , is that Grand Metropolitan chairman Sir Allen Sheppard has cancelled his headquarters ' subscriptions to the Financial Times because it came out for Labour . |
| 14 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 15 | But this CD has been on my player many times since it arrived . |
| 16 | People will have to tell me a million times before it gets through to me . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 18 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 19 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 20 | A less intelligent horse may need a repeat occurrence or lesson several times before it remembers in the future . |
| 21 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 22 | A weight may be modified by both alternatives several times before it approaches a stable value . |
| 23 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 24 | ‘ As many times as it takes for you to realise that shutting him out will only keep him in , ’ he insisted firmly . |
| 25 | As many times as it took to kill . |
| 26 | Two books are supplied with the disks , one of which can be extremely confusing at times as it applies to earlier versions of the program . |