Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
2 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
3 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
4 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | 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 . |