Example sentences of "[verb] it [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
2 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
3 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
4 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
5 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
6 | Could she survive it a second time ? |
7 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
8 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
9 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
10 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
13 | Like many European economies , Austria faces a difficult year ; its close links with the ailing German economy may give it a worse time than most . |
14 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
15 | Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home . |
16 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
17 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
18 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
19 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
20 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
21 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
22 | I did n't believe it the first time either . ’ |
23 | I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before . |
24 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
25 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
26 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |
27 | I hated it the first time . |
28 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
29 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
30 | 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 . |