Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 3 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 4 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 5 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 6 | He had done it many times before . |
| 7 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 8 | I 've done it many times , and they 're wondering who they 're speaking to , is it the press , or is it some private number they 've got instead . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 11 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 12 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 13 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 14 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 15 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 16 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 17 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 18 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 19 | The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over . |
| 20 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 21 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 22 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 23 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |
| 24 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 28 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |
| 29 | His code was no problem ; had n't she seen it enough times anyway when he powered up the network ? |
| 30 | I 've seen it three times now . |