Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 2 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 3 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 4 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 5 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 6 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 7 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 8 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 9 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 10 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 11 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 12 | She could never remember the Alice 's registration number without looking it up , though she saw it twenty times a day . |
| 13 | She was jealous of Arabella , and the baby on the way made it ten times worse . |
| 14 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 15 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 16 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 17 | When he had the message , he read it several times . |
| 18 | Jinny read it three times . |
| 19 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 20 | yeah yeah what did you say they did it three times ? |
| 21 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 22 | Even when I did believe it we discussed it several times , but he would n't change his mind . |
| 23 | I said it three times , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ You said it three times ? ’ |
| 25 | What is equally undeniable is Die Auferstehung 's status as a masterwork ( Mozart conducted it three times in 1788 , expressing no small amount of enthusiasm ) , and this recording 's fine presentation of the piece , worthy to stand beside Hermann Max 's [ see my review of JS Bach 's Magnificat below — Ed. ] splendid Capriccio recording ( coupled with . |