Example sentences of "have [verb] it a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 3 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 4 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 5 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 6 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 7 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 8 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 9 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 10 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 11 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 12 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 13 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 14 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 15 | By shutting this door to exclude fear , even if you have to do it a million times , you are making the statement that you decide not to let that thought feed on your life 's energy . |
| 16 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |