Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château . |
| 6 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 7 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 8 | If the Operator terminal is in use , the Offline System will try to access it several times in quick succession ; if it remains unavailable the Offline run will not take place and a message reporting the situation will be sent via the mail system to the Offline Manager . |
| 9 | On June 18 , the Supreme Soviet finally adopted the state budget for 1992 , which had been prepared with IMF and World Bank advice , having returned it four times to the budgetary commission for redrafting . |
| 10 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 11 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 12 | Then you can split split it several times as well . |
| 13 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 14 | I 've heard it many times before . |
| 15 | I 've heard it three times now . |
| 16 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | I 've seen it three times now . |
| 21 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 22 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 23 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had done it many times before . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 28 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 29 | I 've had it five times . |
| 30 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |