Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The fact that it has won it eight out of ten years is n't registered , only glee that it has been beaten . |
2 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
3 | Well I 've done it six days . |
4 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
5 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
6 | so he said yeah but there 's another way you do it , I said well what 's the point in doing it again , I 've just done it one , he said well yes there 's two ways of doing it |
7 | One thinks of Groucho Marx 's quip : ‘ Giving up smoking is easy — I 've done it hundreds of times . ’ |
8 | I bet I 've done it four or five times this year already |
9 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
10 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
11 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
12 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
13 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
14 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
15 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
16 | Done it I suppose I 've done it eighty a hundred times by now But this was the first time , you see . |
17 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
18 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
19 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
20 | And if I do read a paper it wo n't be for for very long because all the stuff it 's got in it I 've seen it one telly or heard on the radio . |
21 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
22 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
23 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
24 | ‘ We must have seen it dozens of times , ’ he said . |
25 | ‘ I 've certainly seen it three or four times . ’ |
26 | I 've seen it three times now . |
27 | I knew Washington quite well , having visited it two or three times while I was at Amherst in 1969 . |
28 | Fuzzy Logic has made it two wins out of two … |
29 | has made it two nil . |
30 | On thirty seven minutes though , Paul Biddle should have made it two nil as he found himself with just the Fairmile goalkeeper to beat , but stupidly played it wide for Brian Marland , but his final pass was poor and Fairmile 's Kevin Shepherd was able to clear the ball from the danger area . |