Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 32 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 35 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 36 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 37 | bash it five minutes down the road , bang bang |
| 38 | 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 ! ) . |
| 39 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
| 40 | It has time to dissolve minute quantities of minerals which can give it definite characteristics such as hardness or taste . |
| 41 | I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour . |
| 42 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 43 | I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home . |
| 44 | We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life . |
| 45 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 46 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 47 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 48 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 49 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 50 | I mean f I d I doubt whether firms would do it these days eh ? |
| 51 | There 's a lot that do n't do it these days ! |
| 52 | How would you do it these days ? |
| 53 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 54 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 55 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 56 | Without more water , Georgians reply , their state will have to restrict growth , costing it 680,000 jobs and $127 billion in wages by 2010 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 59 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 60 | 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 . |