Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuzzy Logic has made it two wins out of two … |
| 2 | Happily there was no quick cash-in when ROY ORBISON died just before Christmas 1988 , and his widow Barbara has left it four years before releasing his posthumous album KING OF HEARTS ( Virgin ) . |
| 3 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 4 | 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 ! ) . |
| 5 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 6 | I 'd bought it three minutes later . |
| 7 | Liverpool St Helens , relegated from Division One last year , look destined to make it two drops in two years , as do Third Division Headingley who , racked by internal politics , are contemplating a new life in Division Four North . |
| 8 | THE visit of Cheshire Jets to Crowtree tomorrow sees Dave Elderkin 's men looking to make it three wins out of three against the league 's bottom club . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 11 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 12 | Halstead will look to make it four wins in four games . |
| 13 | The village is deserted , and ominously near a cemetery containing the graves of 300 French soldiers killed defending it ten years before . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , a member of the tournament committee heard this picturesque statement of Jack 's intentions — not difficult , you could probably have heard it twenty miles away at the PGA headquarters — and of course the stockbroker was a close friend of the sponsor . |
| 15 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 16 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 17 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 18 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You could have held it two years ago , no problem . |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ ) . |
| 23 | ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day . |
| 24 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 25 | And as she stood at the window she seemed to hear again , as clearly as she had heard it two days before , the sound of Henrietta screaming . |
| 26 | I 've heard it three times now . |
| 27 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 28 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 29 | Well I 've done it six days . |
| 30 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |