Example sentences of "times his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intelligent and witty , Shaw became somewhat embittered , and at times his company teaching could seem perfunctory . |
| 2 | But on Thursday the managing director of Health Images told the D & S Times his company would seriously consider installing a CT Scanner at their Yarm Road centre if Bioplan 's development was turned down . |
| 3 | Mr McAteer said that he felt that at times his flow of questions was interrupted . |
| 4 | At times his ball play bordered on creative terrorism as he taunted the Austrian opposition ; it was Wembley envisaged , but this time disaster struck . |
| 5 | Jonny takes swigs from a water bottle and times his work with an alarm clock . |
| 6 | At times his work has been cast in a Tzara-like parody of high modernist art . |
| 7 | ( I did not earn , as Leslie imagined , three times his pay : in fact I got £200 a year , out of which I paid a pound a week income tax , a guinea a week for billeting , five shillings for transport , and the cost of meals at the cafeteria at Bletchley . |
| 8 | At times his fingers and toes have been burnt . |
| 9 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 10 | Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability . |
| 11 | At such times his friends would gather around and pray for him . |
| 12 | Sberbank has asked the government to give each depositor cash equal to three times his deposit on January 1st 1992 , as well as a ten-year bond worth 21 times his average deposit in 1992 . |
| 13 | At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense . |
| 14 | Three times his donkey saw the invisible angel sent by God , and stopped dead . |
| 15 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 16 | After that , of course , Tuathal had had to drop his attack and race to be first over the river , since he could not face eight times his number in the open plain between the Glen and the crossing . |
| 17 | Indeed , I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage , any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence . |
| 18 | Chris Novoselic rolled a cigarette with the deliberate , weary motions of a man three times his age , while Dave Grohl sat motionless for ten minutes with a towel over his head , every now and again moaning , ‘ I think I 'm about to die ’ . |
| 19 | He 's a natural doer and thinker and organizer , easily bored by detail , but brilliant at conceiving conferences and programmes of action , and he can hold his own with academics three times his age . ’ |
| 20 | When we asked Ranteallo how many times his father had been married , he replied rather confusingly : " Marriages , only five . |
| 21 | At such times his domination of the Company was virtually complete . |
| 22 | Miles Davis has already described Prince 's music as jazz ; his use of electronics can be a as minimal and futurist as Front 242 or DAF ; at other times his intentions are patently psychedelic . |
| 23 | At times his language turned crude and made him look foolish . |
| 24 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |