Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 2 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 3 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 4 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 5 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 6 | I have referred several times to the relatively small number of performers , critics and scholars who have nurtured the a cappella renaissance . |
| 7 | I have said several times that Weismann was wrong . |
| 8 | But one simple fact emerges , namely that there are innumerable interconnections between the cells in one small region , which , of course , only reinforces what I have said several times already , namely that the neocortex talks a lot to itself . |
| 9 | I have said several times that we will not oppose the Bill . |
| 10 | Indeed , I suppose I owe a great deal to his novel , Caleb Williams , which I have read several times with a daughter 's care . |
| 11 | I have tried several times to get in touch by telephone . |
| 12 | Lucy thinks this is due to the Catholic confession ; ‘ I have lied several times ’ formed an item of every girl 's and woman 's monthly confession : the priest heard unshocked , and absolved unreluctant . ’ . |
| 13 | Will the Secretary of State respond to a question that I have put several times since the Select Committee on Science and Technology in another place produced its recommendations for the Government ? |
| 14 | One gifted person is the 37-year-old Irishman Finbarr Nolan who has featured several times in the Scot-tish press as a result of his ‘ clinics ’ in Ayrshire and Edinburgh . |
| 15 | However , Brenda 's contribution to the argument at lines 11 – 13 — which she has signalled several times with Standard " I always say , right " — involves a switch from London English to Creole . |
| 16 | Muhammad Bu Hantish , who had married several times , had forty-six children altogether . |
| 17 | To the career ladies in the minority , however , it is thoroughly depressing , particularly when they see numerous retired gentlemen occupying starting times on Saturday and Sunday mornings who have played several times during the week as well . |
| 18 | He has joined a new group called The Popguns who have appeared several times in the independent charts . |
| 19 | Programmes are now being directed towards preventing relapse in a smoking population that is increasingly composed of people who have tried several times to stop : among smokers surveyed in 1990 , 42% reported having tried to stop in the previous year ( unpublished data , Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer ) . |
| 20 | I have a niece who erm she had quite a few , she 's won several times . |
| 21 | ‘ Brady and I lunched , and we 've talked several times . |
| 22 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |
| 23 | The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not . |
| 24 | One , as we have noted several times in this chapter , is the availability of spatial data in computer-readable format . |
| 25 | We seem here to have further evidence of the apparent paradox about creativity and psychosis to which we have referred several times . |
| 26 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 27 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 28 | It was a course of discussion they had followed several times before , each time with greater perplexity as their bright , affectionate little boy metamorphosed into a silent , awkward adolescent . |
| 29 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |
| 30 | They had spoken several times on the telephone and he had rediscovered many things about her , things he had forgotten — her pleasant manners , her humour , her gentleness , and above all her dedication to her music . |